As the Green Bay Packers ready for Week 12, they received unfortunate news on Friday.
After he violated the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug policy, the league suspended rookie offensive lineman Sean Rhyan.
Rhyan received the minimum six-game suspension for a first-time offense of the policy.
Packers reporter Ryan Wood of the USA Today Network tweeted Friday afternoon, “Packers rookie OL Sean Rhyan has been suspended 6 games for violating the NFL’s policy against performance-enhancing drugs, the team announced. Rhyan, a third-round pick, has effectively been a healthy scratch this season.”
The move won’t impact the Packers too heavily outside of the looming bad press. Rhyan had played zero games to this point after being a healthy scratch for the entire season. So for Green Bay, they just won’t see Rhyan again on gamedays until next season at minimum.
Rhyan previously starred at UCLA before the Packers selected him in the 2022 NFL Draft’s third round.
Seven players faced suspensions this season for PED use. DeAndre Hopkins was the most prominent suspension of the previous six. He recently incurred some wrath for that suspension from an opposing player. Not so nice.
The most recent PED suspension in the NFL occurred when Kansas City Chiefs running back Jerrion Ealy was suspended in early October.
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