BUFFALO, N.Y. — Payments defensive finish Von Miller has been suspended 4 video games with out pay for violating the NFL’s private conduct coverage, the league introduced Tuesday.
He shall be eligible for reinstatement following the workforce’s Week 8 sport on the Seattle Seahawks. Miller can even miss video games on the Houston Texans and the New York Jets and vs. the Tennessee Titans.
The suspension seems to stem from allegations that Miller assaulted his pregnant girlfriend in November 2023 throughout the Payments’ bye week in suburban Dallas. The NFL didn’t reply to ESPN’s request for readability over the character of the suspension.
Miller turned himself in to the Glenn Heights (Texas) Police Division on Nov. 30 on an arrest warrant for a cost of third-degree felony assault of a pregnant girl. He was booked into the DeSoto Tri-Metropolis Jail that afternoon earlier than being launched on $5,000 bond.
Miller has denied the allegations and stated that they’re “one hundred pc false.” In July 2024, Miller stated that the case is closed. No costs have been ever filed within the case, however the NFL had been conducting a separate investigation.
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An affidavit obtained by ESPN final 12 months detailed that the allegations towards Miller embrace him placing a hand, and later each palms, on the lady’s neck for about three to 5 seconds, pulling her hair and attempting to shove her whereas she was making an attempt to collect her issues and depart after he instructed her to get out of the residence the place they each lived.
Per the affidavit, the lady instructed Miller she was going to name the police, which prompted him to depart the residence.
Police arrived on the condominium, noticed “minor abrasions” on the lady’s left hand and bruising to her neck, “accidents according to utilized strain the neck,” along with bruising to her stomach and left biceps. The accidents have been documented when police took pictures that day.
When addressing the allegations for the primary time in December 2023, Miller stated, “Actually, I wasn’t on social media earlier than and undoubtedly not on social media now. However from the issues which have been dropped at my consideration, the whole lot is fake. And I might love to take a seat right here and say, ‘Y’all know me!’ Nevertheless it’s not, this isn’t that sort of state of affairs as a result of home violence actually occurs world wide — for women and men. And it is a severe state of affairs so I might not pull that card.
“All I can say is it’s only a matter of time at the start will get set straight.”
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stated in March that he did take into account putting Miller on the commissioner’s exempt checklist, however that they didn’t really feel it was applicable on the time based mostly on all of the info. The commissioner’s checklist makes gamers exempt from counting towards the lively roster for causes decided by the commissioner.
Miller restructured his contract this offseason, saving the Payments $8.645 million in cap area. He signed a six-year cope with the workforce in 2022.
He served a six-game suspension for performance-enhancing medication in 2013.
Miller, 35, serves a rotational position on the Payments’ defensive position and has recorded three sacks this season, one in every of the primary three video games. He performed 9 snaps within the Week 4 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
The Payments signed defensive sort out Zion Logue from the Atlanta Falcons’ apply squad in a corresponding transfer.
