{"id":44072,"date":"2025-06-27T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44072"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:14:57","slug":"nfl-suspends-justin-tucker-for-first-10-weeks-of-season-for-policy-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44072","title":{"rendered":"NFL suspends Justin Tucker for first 10 weeks of season for policy violation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK &#8212;&nbsp;The NFL suspended former Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker for the first 10 weeks of the season on Thursday for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ravens-justin-tucker-massage-therapists-1a29a2b49d3563bf4effad67969ed6f9\">violating its personal conduct policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The suspension takes effect on Aug. 26, roster cutdown day, and Tucker is eligible for reinstatement on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Tucker remains free to try out with and sign with a team. If he is signed, he can attend training camp and participate in preseason games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The 35-year-old became a free agent after the Ravens released him last month in the aftermath of reports that he was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by massage therapists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A five-time All-Pro, Tucker has played his entire 13-year career with Baltimore. He\u2019s considered one of the best kickers in NFL history, although 2024 was his worst season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Baltimore Banner since January has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/baltimore-ravens-justin-tucker-massage-therapists-67be346843eba13a456e34b775e50c81\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that over a dozen massage therapists have accused Tucker of inappropriate sexual behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/nfl-suspends-justin-tucker-10-weeks-season-violating-123246305\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212;&nbsp;The NFL suspended former Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker for the first 10 weeks of the season on Thursday for&nbsp;violating its personal conduct policy. The suspension takes effect on Aug. 26, roster cutdown day, and Tucker is eligible for reinstatement on Nov. 11. Tucker remains free to try out with and sign with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[24614,2230,22291],"class_list":["post-44072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-justin","tag-nfl","tag-tucker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44074,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44072\/revisions\/44074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}