{"id":15477,"date":"2014-03-05T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/browner-to-sit-out-first-four-games-of-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-03-05T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T18:32:00","slug":"browner-to-sit-out-first-four-games-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/browner-to-sit-out-first-four-games-of-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Browner to sit out first four games of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pending free agent cornerback Brandon Browner had his suspension reduced to four games by the NFL for the upcoming 2014 season, the league and the Players Association revealed Wednesday in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>Browner, who was facing a potential year-long ban as a second-time violator of the NFL&#8217;s substance-abuse policy, had previously announced his reinstatement with a message on his Twitter account Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old had been forced to sit out the Seattle Seahawks&#8217; final five games of 2013, including the club&#8217;s victory over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII, after losing an appeal following a failed drug test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NFL and NFL Players Association have agreed to conditionally reinstate Brandon Browner from his indefinite suspension under the Policy and Program on Substances of Abuse,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;He will be eligible to sign with a club and participate in offseason and preseason activities. Should he comply with the terms of the Substance Abuse Policy and Program, he will be fully reinstated after serving a four-game suspension without pay at the start of the 2014 regular season and forfeiting an additional four weeks of pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Browner also missed Seattle&#8217;s final four regular-season games of the 2012 season after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 Pro Bowl selection started eight times during the Seahawks&#8217; championship campaign, registering 19 tackles, one interception and 10 passes defensed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pending free agent cornerback Brandon Browner had his suspension reduced to four games by the NFL for the upcoming 2014 season, the league and the Players Association revealed Wednesday in a joint statement. Browner, who was facing a potential year-long ban as a second-time violator of the NFL&#8217;s substance-abuse policy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[132,131,130],"class_list":["post-15477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-seahawks","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-seahawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}