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Report: Cowboys CB Rashard Robinson suspended first two games of 2021 season for PED violation

The Cowboys take a minor blow for the start of the season.

Syndication: The Enquirer Kareem Elgazzar via Imagn Content Services, LLC

The Dallas Cowboys are fairly used to having defensive players suspended to begin an NFL season, unfortunately it is something that they have dealt with very often at the beginning of seasons. As fate would have it, they are going down that road once again. We are nearing the 2021 NFL Draft, but that hardly means that NFL news stops trickling in. The league tends to decide things on its own time and whenever it does is when teams have to react.

It was reported on Tuesday that Cowboys cornerback Rashard Robinson (note, not Reggie Robinson II) is being suspended for the first two games of the 2021 season for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.

Robinson is the latest Cowboys defender to begin a season suspended. The team did not technically have a defensive player suspended to began last year’s campaign, Randy Gregory merely had to sit out games as part of the conditions for his reinstatement.

Even if you do consider 2020 to be the outlier the Cowboys have had at least one defensive player suspended to begin a season in what is now seven of the last eight years:

  • 2014: Orlando Scandrick
  • 2015: Greg Hardy, Rolando McClain
  • 2016: DeMarcus Lawrence
  • 2017: David Irving
  • 2018: David Irving
  • 2019: Robert Quinn
  • 2021: Rashard Robinson

Robinson appeared in four games for the Cowboys and this actually marks his second suspension during his time in the NFL. He is hardly expected to be a significant contributor to the team this season, but as a part of the team this falls on the Cowboys as a whole.

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