It’s clear that wide receiver Josh Gordon has a problem. While awaiting a hearing on his probable year-long suspension for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy, Gordon was arrested and charged with DWI. The Cleveland Browns released a brief statement.
“We are aware of the matter and are disappointed to learn of the situation,” Browns general Ray Farmer said in a statement, via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “We will comment further at the appropriate time.”
The Browns can’t say they’re surprised, not after realizing he’d miss most if not all of this season after his latest failed drug test.
The Browns knew he couldn’t be counted on this year, and brought in free agents Andrew Hawkins, Nate Burleson and Anthony Armstrong.
“We have to build a football team that can win regardless of who is missing,” Farmer said in May. “I think that’s the charge that we have. That’s my job, that’s coach [Mike] Pettine’s job is to prepare this football team to win games regardless of who’s missing.”
