Jets defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson has been suspended for one game for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, the league announced Thursday.
Richardson will be eligible to return to the Jets’ active roster on Monday, Sept. 12 following the team’s Sept. 11 game against the Cincinnati Bengals, an NFL spokesperson said in a statement. He can participate in all preseason games and practices.
The suspension stems from Richardson’s July 2015 arrest in Missouri. The 2013 first-round pick had been facing five misdemeanor charges — including resisting arrest, which carried a sentence of up to a year in jail — after he was arrested for driving up to 143 mph on a Missouri interstate highway following a chase with police last offseason, though he avoided jail time by entering a guilty plea in January.
It’s Richardson’s second suspension in four years. He was suspended for the first four games of 2015 because of a second failed test for marijuana.
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