Free agent tight end Chris Herndon has been suspended by the NFL for the rest of the 2022 regular season. according to ESPN’s Field Yates. A reason was not given for the suspension.
It’s also not the first time Herndon, 26, has been sacked by the league.
In 2019, the former Jet was suspended for the first four games of the season for violating the league’s policy and program on substance abuse. He also pleaded guilty earlier that year to DWI after crashing into the car of a 76-year-old man in Rockaway Township, NJ in June 2018.
Herndon, whom the Jets drafted out of Miami in the fourth round in 2018, spent his first three seasons in New York. He had 39 catches for 502 yards and four touchdowns as a rookie but played in just one game the following year because of the suspension and subsequent season-ending injury. His last year with the Jets he tallied 31 grabs for 287 yards and three touchdowns before being traded to the Vikings.
Although he appeared in 16 games for Minnesota, including five starts, Herndon had just four catches for 40 yards and one touchdown last season.
Herndon signed with the Saints in August, but New Orleans released him three weeks later and he has been a free agent since.
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