http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/10908822/josh-gordon-cleveland-browns-faces-season-long-suspension&ex_cid=sportscenter

Josh Gordon faces suspension
Updated: May 9, 2014, 6:05 PM ET
By T.J. Quinn and Don Van Natta Jr. | ESPN.com

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon could face a season-long suspension after a second failed drug test months ago, this time for marijuana, sources told "Outside the Lines" on Friday.

Reached by phone Friday afternoon, Gordon said: "That's something you're going to have to talk to Drew Rosenhaus about. I really don't know anything about it."

Asked whether he planned an appeal of his suspension and test, Gordon said, "I'm going to have to find out about that later. You need to call Drew," before hanging up.

Rosenhaus declined to comment but said the information was "not true."

The 23-year-old Gordon was expected to the top target for Brian Hoyer or rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel this upcoming season.

Gordon, who was suspended last season without pay for two games and two additional game checks for his first violation of the league's policy, led the Browns with 87 receptions and had nine touchdowns last season. He led the NFL with 1,646 receiving yards and became the first player in NFL history with consecutive 200-yard receiving games.

Gordon said last year's suspension was the result of using cough syrup that contained codeine -- a banned substance.

Two sources told "Outside the Lines" Friday that Gordon's latest violation is the result of marijuana being found during a drug test. One source said that Gordon received a letter in early winter from a league physician stating he had failed a test. A second letter, informing Gordon that he faced a 16-game suspension but had the right to appeal, was sent in late April.

Gordon had drug-testing problems in college as well. He was dismissed from the Baylor Bears after being suspended twice for marijuana use. He transferred to Utah but didn't play there after failing another drug test.

Gordon is considered the star on an offense that added Manziel Thursday night with the 22nd selection in the first round of the draft.

Prior to the draft, Gordon pushed behind the scenes for the Browns to take Manziel.

"I think I was just a big fan of his overall game, his prowess on it," Gordon said Friday on "SVP & Russillo" on ESPN Radio, before "Outside the Lines" reported the substance abuse policy violation. "His outlook on it. His fire and ambition and will to win was greater than I think any other prospect in the draft.

"Despite all the mixed reviews and the media downsizing him, his perseverance seemed to be a lot greater than that. I saw something a lot deeper than just his talent that could take us to the next level."

WR just replaced whatever position Ray Farmer had at the top of his draft board for day 2

I had a team built around Gordon, Dez, Demaryius & Julio.

Wtf.

I'm gonna have to use Cordarrelle as his replacement,

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http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc85/napsharmon/Animations/smokalot1.gif

and i like weed, but i don't touch it because i don't want to fail a test. even though the last time i was tested was like 2003.

i have to imagine almost ALL nfl players have way better will power than i do. but then drugs.

because that's the only drug that can get you so out into orbit that you don't care about eating, fucking, or properly discarding bodily fluids let alone showing up to work.

I've smoked some of the finest weed in the state of California but none that would ever cause me to turn down a good steak or some good pussy.

I haven't even smoked weed good enough to cause me to skip a DMV appointment let alone the chance to make millions of dollars.

and get that shit taken care of so I don't have to wait in a line later.

(c) Masta Killa.

Although in this case, the weed cost him the money.

This is so stupid every time it comes up. The league doesn't announce what the suspension is for. If the player wants to control the narrative, all they have to do is let "sources" inform a hungry press.

If dudes really are losing pay over bad weed tests, in the wake of legalization and increasingly liberal drug laws, the NFLPA is dangerously incompetent if they don't fight back on lost wages for BS like that.

>the
>NFLPA is dangerously incompetent if they don't fight back on
>lost wages for BS like that.

wouldnt the browns have drafted a WR if they knew about it?
why of all times is this news coming out the day after round 1? lol
how many times does he get tested? he doesnt have the resources to rid it of his system?
its dumb that you can knock your wife out in a casino but get banned for weed though

at 4 if they had known about this.

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Plus at least some of the people in the Browns knew this was coming sooo

Cuz weed is one of the biggest cash crops, if not THE biggest, in the United States. Surely, weed isn't THAT bad...

I don't know, I've been trying to quit for a while and think Im really going to now just to give me more motivation to work out, clean my house etc, but hasn't stuck yet, end up copping out and buying a bag.

It doesn't help that my work does random saliva tests that can only be detected if you smoke an hour before so as long as I don't go to work high Im alright. I have smoked the night before, got called in but still passed the test, was very nervous first time tho, right after I closed on my house too. And that still didn't stop me from smoking..

I ain't a heavy 6 blunt a day smoker tho like some of my friends, usually just a bowl a night to relieve stress.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11009140/josh-gordon-cleveland-browns-caught-speeding-passenger-had-marijuana

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/990470/hal-mcrae-goes-nuts-o.gif

he probably has someone in the passenger seat at all times just to eat any potential charges.