Cameron Sutton was within the Detroit Lions’ exercise facility final week when the staff discovered in regards to the warrant for his arrest, staff president Rod Wooden stated Monday.
Wooden, talking from the NFL’s league conferences in Orlando, Florida, instructed Fox 2 in Detroit {that a} member of the staff was in a position to speak with Sutton and advise him to show himself in. The Lions launched Sutton the subsequent day.
“Urged he get counsel and do the suitable factor to show himself in,” Wooden instructed the tv station. “After that, we met the remainder of the day and the next morning to resolve to launch him.”
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Wooden stated Sutton “simply kinda confirmed up unexpectedly to work out. We have been in a position to speak to him in individual — not me, however different members of the workers — and he left the constructing. We launched him the subsequent day, and nobody has spoken to him since.”
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace made their warrant for Sutton public final week as authorities have been unable to find Sutton since March 7, when the arrest warrant was issued. Sutton is going through a cost of home battery by strangulation, a third-degree felony punishable by as much as 5 years in jail.
Sutton, 29, joined the Lions as an unrestricted free agent final 12 months on a three-year, $33 million contract after spending his first six NFL seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Wooden instructed Fox 2 that, “it was a tough resolution” to launch Sutton, “however it was the suitable resolution.”
“We’re simply transferring on. I need to make sure that everyone is aware of, we did not launch him due to something associated to the cap or cash that we might owe him. It was the suitable factor to do for the group.
“We did launch him with a post-June 1 designation, which can enable us to take care of regardless of the cap implications are over two seasons versus one. And we will let the method between us, him and the union play out to find out precisely what occurs. However cash was not on my thoughts after we made our selections.”
