NEW YORK, N.Y. – The New York Jets continue to add NFL players with questionable character.
Receiver Santonio Holmes was dumped by the Pittsburgh Steelers for the Jets 5th round draft pick but the player will not be on the field until Week 5 of the upcoming NFL season.
According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Holmes will be suspended for the first four games of the 2010 season for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy.
Although Holmes has 235 career catches for 3,835 yards and 20 touchdowns, he brings a decent amount of baggage with him. In 2008, he was busted for possession of marijuana and prior to that was involved in a domestic violence incident in 2006.
Jets owner Woody Johnson seems headed down the same path that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones took a few years ago when he gambled on Tank Williams and Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones, two other players with records.
That road hit a dead end for Dallas but time will tell if the same happens to the Jets.
In addition to Holmes, the Jets added disgruntled Cleveland Browns receiver Braylon Edwards last year, just two days after he was accused of punching someone at a downtown Cleveland nightclub and also obtained Antonio Cromartie last month from San Diego.
Cromartie has fathered seven children by six women in five states and is facing legal issues regarding some of those.
If that isn’t enough baggage to add to a locker room, the Jets also had an interest in former Giants receiver Plaxico Burress, who is currently behind bars for carrying a concealed weapon and shooting himself in the leg outside a New York nightclub during November 2008 and last month were said to be trying to obtain Brandon Marshall from the Denver Broncos, another player who appears to need an attitude adjustment.
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