Sep 14, 2018
Ex-Jet Donahue suspended 14 weeks by NFL
Former New York Jets linebacker Dylan Donahue has been suspended 14 weeks by the NFL for violating its substance abuse policy.
The Canadian Press
NEW YORK — Former New York Jets linebacker Dylan Donahue has been suspended 14 weeks by the NFL for violating its substance abuse policy.
The 26-year-old Donahue pleaded guilty last month to charges in two separate incidents in which he was arrested for driving while intoxicated.
Police said he caused a wrong-way crash in February that injured four people in New Jersey. He also received a three-month suspended sentence and was fined $1,000 for a DUI crash in his hometown of Billings, Montana, in May 2017.
Donahue was among the Jets' final roster cuts two weeks ago and is currently a free agent.
Howard Balzer of BalzerFootball.com first reported the league's punishment Friday.
Donahue spent a month in a substance-abuse treatment facility in Florida shortly after crash in the Lincoln Tunnel in February. He told reporters last month that he hadn't had alcohol since.
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