In addition to Brady’s suspension, the team will forfeit their first-round draft pick in 2016, a fourth-round pick in 2017, and has been fined $1 million.
The two locker room attendants who allegedly deflated the quarterback’s footballs, John Jastremski and James McNally “have been indefinitely suspended without pay by the club,” the league said in a statement Monday.
The 243-page investigative report outlined increased correspondence between Brady and one of the attendants after news broke that the NFL would investigate the team. Prior to that, the two attendants had exchanged text messages in which McNally referred to himself as “the deflator.