The top player for the Dallas cowboys has been suspended for the following…
On Monday night, the Dallas Cowboys will play their second game without right tackle La’el Collins. By the end of it, he will have served out his five-game suspension, which was imposed following the team’s season-opening game more than two weeks ago.
Cowboys fans were shocked to learn of Collins’ suspension because he had only recently made his debut following a complete boycott of the 2020 campaign. He talked before the season about how much it hurt to watch his team and not be able to help, and that his absence from the team last year was one of the reasons they performed so poorly.
Following Collins’ suspension, a number of reports regarding the suspension’s ambiguity started to surface. Many questioned why he had been suspended after it was revealed that he had missed multiple drug tests and that he had reasonable excuses for doing so.
Another report surfaced on Sunday morning, taking the case in an even more bizarre direction.
La’el Collins allegedly attempted to buy off the league’s drug-test collector, leading to his suspension.
The NFLPA and the league initially negotiated a deal for Collins’ suspension to be reduced from five games to two, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Collins continued to appeal, but the arbitrator reinstated the five-game suspension after hearing evidence that Collins allegedly attempted to bribe the league’s drug-test collector.
According to sources who spoke to ESPN, Dallas Cowboys right tackle La’el Collins was suspended for attempting to buy off the league’s drug-test collector.
Under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, players cannot be suspended for positive marijuana tests; however, Collins’ problem, according to sources, was that he repeatedly missed tests and attempted to buy off the test collector.
The NFL Players Association assisted in negotiating a reduction to what would have been a two-game ban for Collins, after the NFL had originally planned to suspend him for five games.
However, Collins challenged the suspension, and the NFLPA and the league jointly appointed an arbitrator to hear the case. In addition to dismissing Collins’ appeal, the arbitrator decided that the suspension ought to be increased to the original five games in light of the available data.
Although Collins’ attorney is attempting to appeal the arbitrator’s ruling, league sources anticipate that the suspension, which was made public on September 10, will not be lowered.
If Collins did make an attempt at bribery, then that clarifies some of the ambiguity that has surrounded this story ever since it was first reported. Collins’s strong conviction that he should have tried to bribe someone so that he could still file an appeal even after being reduced to two games begs the question of what the real evidence is against him.
Collins is currently appealing his suspension, which is understandably frustrating given that it should have only been for two games. However, the report also suggests that the appeal will ultimately be unsuccessful.
