Chris Herndon has been hit with a significant ban. The free agent tight end has been suspended for eight weeks, reports ESPN’s Field Yates (on Twitter). That means Herndon will be banned from taking the field for the rest of the 2022 campaign.
We’ve yet to hear a reason for Herndon’s latest suspension. The tight end was previously banned for four games during the 2019 season for violating the league’s policy on substances of abuse.
Herndon was a fourth-round pick by the Jets back in 2018. He had his most productive professional season as a rookie, finishing the year with 39 receptions for 502 yards and four touchdowns. That aforementioned suspension (plus a hamstring injury) knocked him out for the beginning of the 2019 campaign, and he only got into one game that season before landing on injured reserve with a broken rib.
He managed to return for the 2020 season and got into all 16 games (13 starts) for the Jets, finishing with 31 receptions for 287 yards and three scores. Prior to the 2021 season, Herndon was packaged with a sixth-round pick and sent to the Vikings for a fourth-round selection. The tight end started five of his 16 games for Minnesota in 2021, hauling in only four catches for 40 yards and a touchdown.
Herndon joined the Saints this past August but was cut before the end of the preseason. The 26-year-old hasn’t had any reported workouts during the 2022 season.
wonder what he did
How can a player that is not on a roster get an eight game suspension?
If a team needs a TE in the playoffs, can they sign him?
PED’s.
So the NFL test free agents that are not signed to a team?
OBJ, AB, Eric Fisher, Richard Sherman, and Cam Newton are getting called in to be tested for PED’s?
I bet it’s for an off the field issue. No way I’d submit to a drug test or ped test for someone I don’t work for
Horrible article. No one cares about his accolades. Dude F’d up. Bring us the truth and stop with the sugar coating.
What? All they did was tell those who didn’t know who he was, and provide numbers for those who did. Your comment makes zero sense.
They don’t know or they would have said. It’s not rocket science.
Herndon was a player who seemingly just fell off the map completely after rookie year. I remember thinking that he was the Jets’ best weapon long term on offense for the future, only to see him sputter out. I actually was very confused originally as to why he fell out of favor in New York, given the dearth of options on offense. I suppose he had significant issues off the field, which would explain it.