Browns outside linebacker Armonty Bryant has been suspended without pay for the first four regular-season games of 2016 for violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs.
He will be eligible to participate in all offseason and preseason practices and games. The suspension will cost Bryant $158,823, four-seventeenths of his $675,000 base salary.
The league announced Bryant’s punishment Friday afternoon. It should come as no surprise.
Bryant pleaded not guilty to felony drug charges Feb. 24 in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. He was indicted two weeks earlier on two counts of felony drug possession stemming from a Christmas morning traffic stop.