Patriots defensive lineman Daniel Ekuale‘s season is now set to begin late. The NFL gave the young interior defender a two-game suspension Monday, Field Yates of ESPN.com tweets.
Ekuale frequently earned late-week promotions onto the Patriots’ active roster, bouncing between their practice squad and 55-man game-day contingent last season. The Pats gave the former Washington State D-lineman a reserve/futures contract in January.
After starting five games with the Jaguars in 2020, Ekuale did not last into the team’s Urban Meyer-led regular season. The Jags waived him ahead of last season, but Ekuale landed on the Patriots’ taxi squad soon after. In seven Pats games featuring just 99 defensive snaps, Ekuale registered two sacks.
This will be the American Samoa native’s age-28 season. He is set to make $965K in base salary. This suspension stands to hurt Ekuale’s chances with the Patriots, though his practice squad performance last season obviously works in his favor ahead of his second year with the team.
This will be the American Samoa native’s age-28 season.
What?
It’s a sentence. Words.
No where, does it say what he was suspended for!!!
EXACTLY like wtf is Sam Robinson doing? Lol
Why no mention of why he was suspended? Not even speculation? It’s only 2 games, so I’m imagining it can’t be that serious. But maybe referencing some past 2 game suspension would give us a decent idea and the kind of incident it could be.
This is just another example of the horrible writing by this staff.
The legacy of the Patriots is just one big cheat-filled fraud. The lack of a Belichick coaching tree just confirms that.
Youre a lunatic.
Yep! The first word in your username is high so yes, you must be high!
Ignorance confirmed
Well I don’t agree that their entire legacy is cheat filled, however, there was definite cheating.
And the reason for the suspension is ???
We’re waiting
Sam Robinson did an extremely poor job writing this article.
The people who work for PFR are not journalists, they are content creators – which means they don’t do their own research/investigations, they simply peruse other people’s work and re-word it so they can’t be accused of plagiarism. Pretty much anyone can do it.