Cardinals wide receiver Zay Jones was suspended five games by the NFL on Friday for violating its personal conduct policy.
Though the Associated Press reported that the league didn’t provide a reason for the decision, Jones was arrested in November on a misdemeanor domestic battery charge that was eventually dropped.
The NFL’s decision means the Cardinals will be without Jones — one of their wideouts tasked with collecting targets from Kyler Murray behind No.
3 overall pick Marvin Harrison Jr. — for more than a month to open their 2024 campaign, with Jones eligible to return for Arizona’s Oct. 13 game on the road against the Packers.
“There’s a reason he’s played at a high level on a couple different teams in some different offenses,” Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon told reporters Friday, according to ESPN.
He understands the nuances of what needs to get done from the receiver position.
High, high football IQ.” Arizona opens the season with games against the Bills, Rams, Lions, Commanders and 49ers.
He appeared in 16 games for the Jaguars last year, collecting five touchdowns and a career-best 823 receiving yards before inking a one-year, $2.25 million deal with the Cardinals.
The NFL on Friday suspended wide receiver Zay Jones of the Cardinals for five games for breaking its personal conduct policy.
The league did not give a reason for the decision, according to the Associated Press, but Jones was detained in November on a misdemeanor domestic battery charge that was later dropped.
According to an Associated Press story from the time, Jones and the mother of his child, who was supposedly visiting Jones’ family, got into a fight last year over custody, which resulted in “several small scratches” that looked like fingernail marks.
Jones reportedly spent one night in the Duval County Jail before being released on a $2,503 bond. The charge was later dropped in March, according to the AP, because the state attorney’s office “declines to prosecute this defendant for these charges.”.
Jones, one of the wide receivers for the Cardinals who is tasked with gathering targets from Kyler Murray behind No. 3rd overall selection, Marvin Harrison Jr. — for over a month in order to kick off their 2024 campaign; Jones is qualified to return for Arizona’s Oct. 13 game away from home against the Packers.
The head coach of the Cardinals, Jonathan Gannon, told reporters on Friday that there was a reason the player had performed well on a few different teams in a variety of offensive schemes, according to ESPN. “He has a rapid rate of learning.”. He is aware of the subtleties of the tasks required from the receiver position. Able to perform all three duties. He has performed admirably. Football IQ is extremely high. “.
Arizona plays the Bills, Rams, Lions, Commanders, and 49ers in its opening games of the season.
Before signing a one-year, $2.25 million contract with the Cardinals, he played in 16 games for the Jaguars last season, recording a career-high 823 receiving yards and five touchdowns.
The yards were Jones’ greatest since his second NFL season, when he amassed 652 with the Bills, the team that selected him in the second round out of East Carolina in 2017. Following that, he played with three different teams for the following four seasons.
