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Brady HendersonESPN
Josh Gordon’s return to the field is pending due to the NFL’s decision that the Seattle Seahawks wide receiver did not meet all the terms of his conditional reintegration, an ESPN source confirmed.
It is not known in what terms Gordon failed to satisfy them.
The source said Gordon and the Seahawks were notified of the issue on Tuesday, a day before it began practicing. The Seahawks added Gordon to their list of 53 men on Monday. Coach Pete Carroll said the same day that Gordon had a chance to play on Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams.
This was the first week that Gordon was eligible to practice and play games, provided he complied with conditional reintegration conditions on December 3rd. . He is still allowed to do so even with Tuesday’s developments, according to the source.
The Seattle Times first reported that Gordon’s return was suspended because he did not meet the conditions for conditional reintegration.
The NFL transaction notes that Gordon was put back on the commissioner’s exempt list on Tuesday, a day after he was eliminated.
Gordon was allowed to return to the Seahawks headquarters on December 9 after completing his COVID-19 test. That day, he wrote on Twitter that he was “excited to return to the family in this way.”
With the Seahawks under the impression that Gordon was eligible to practice and play this week, Carroll said Monday that he is interested in seeing how 29-year-old Gordon will do in his first practice in a year.
“We have to take him to the training ground and see what everything looks like,” Carroll said. “He worked a lot. I was able to watch my workouts a few times here to see that he’s in great shape. And he’s very big and strong. So we’re excited to see how he does. We’re planning the week. as if they have a chance to contribute, so we’ll see. We’ll have good hope and a thought and we’ll see where it fits. “
Gordon was suspended indefinitely in December last year for violating the league’s performance-enhancing and abusive substances policies. It was Gordon’s sixth suspension since the 2013 season and his fifth for a form of substance abuse, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.
Gordon’s lawyer, Adam Kenner, confirmed to ESPN in June that Gordon’s last suspension was the result of a failure he experienced after his brother’s death last fall. Gordon posted on social media on November 11, 2019, the day he debuted in the Seahawks, about the loss of his older brother.