Cowboys DE Quinn suspended 2 video games for PEDs

OXNARD, Calif. — Dallas Cowboys defensive finish Robert Quinn has been suspended for the primary two video games of the season for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug coverage.

Quinn can be eligible to return to recreation motion Sept. 22 towards the Miami Dolphins, who traded him to the Cowboys in March. On Wednesday, Quinn had surgical procedure to restore a fractured left hand suffered in Tuesday’s apply, and the group believed he can be able to play for the Sept. eight season opener towards the New York Giants.

Quinn’s agent, Sean Kiernan, launched a prolonged assertion defending his shopper, saying the failed take a look at was a results of Quinn’s use of a preventative remedy for seizures.

“Rob has a medical historical past with seizures that requires him to take a number of doses of preventative remedy each day to control them,” Kiernan wrote. “He was examined on April 2nd underneath the NFL Steroid Coverage. He failed the take a look at for a substance known as probenecid, which is classed as a masking agent underneath the coverage. He doesn’t take any dietary supplements and took nothing else throughout this era that may create a constructive take a look at for probenecid, actually, he had no thought what probenecid was or what it was used for.”

Kiernan additionally took exception to the league’s ways in the course of the listening to course of.

“I have been working with NFL Gamers for 20 years, and I am unable to consider a state of affairs the place I have been personally concerned the place the league was as tone deaf because it was right here,” he wrote. “Now, Rob can be punished for one thing that may have been unimaginable for him to stop, and though the NFL admitted in the course of the listening to that it didn’t imagine Rob was deliberately doping, they nonetheless suspended him. The arbitrator gave us a good listening to, however the energy at which the league argued towards Rob was extremely disappointing.”

Coach Jason Garrett mentioned the group is 100% behind Quinn.

“We help Robert Quinn. We belief Robert Quinn,” Garrett mentioned. “We actually like every thing he is carried out for our group since he is been right here. We’re enthusiastic about his future with our group.”

Garrett mentioned the Cowboys turned conscious of the opportunity of a suspension previously few weeks. Quinn is predicted to return to the Cowboys on Sunday to start his rehab on his left hand and proceed conditioning work.

With Quinn out for the primary two video games, it creates some potential roster points for the Cowboys when the ultimate cuts are due and opens alternatives for different gamers, like Taco Charlton, Dorance Armstrong and Kerry Hyder.

Randy Gregory has but to file for reinstatement from his indefinite suspension, and DeMarcus Lawrence (shoulder) and Tyrone Crawford (hip) have opened coaching camp on the bodily unable to carry out record.

The expectation is Lawrence and Crawford will start practising when the Cowboys return to Frisco, Texas, after their Aug. 17 preseason recreation towards the Los Angeles Rams in Honolulu.