Myles Garrett received an indefinite suspension for his actions against Mason Rudolph in Thursday’s Steelers-Browns game. He joins a list of players who have been hit with lengthy bans, which will be considered as four games or more for this exercise.
Paul Hornung and Alex Karras
Paul Hornung (pictured, left) and Alex Karras were two of the biggest stars in the NFL in the early ’60s. The Packers and Lions stars were found to have bet on NFL games and that earned them a year-long suspension for the 1963 season.
Mike Reilly
Mike Reilly was a Rams eighth-round pick out of Oklahoma in 1982. He wound up suspended for the entire 1983 season after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter in the death of 17-year-old Zachary Thomas of Chino, CA. Reilly accepted a one-year sentence at a minimum security jail facility in Orange, a sentence that allowed him to practice but not play for the Rams. He made a financial settlement with the victim’s family.
Art Schlichter
Art Schlichter found his way into trouble over and over again. Gambling and abuse issues plagued the former local hero from Ohio State after the Colts drafted him in the first round. He was suspended indefinitely in 1983 for betting on NFL games and other sports events and reinstated the next year. These were just the beginning of troubled times for the quarterback.
Jeff George
Jeff George was around the league a lot. Once considered a phenom, he became a journeyman. In 1996, he was suspended for the entire season due to a violation of the league’s personal conduct policy, stemming from an argument during a game with Falcons head coach June Jones.
Albert Haynesworth
Titans defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth earned himself a five-game suspension after stomping on the head of Dallas Cowboys center Andre Gurode during a game in 2006.
Adam Jones
Adam Jones found trouble frequently during his NFL career. He missed the entire 2007 season for his involvement in an incident in Las Vegas that saw him attack a stripper and threaten a security guard’s life.
Michael Vick
Michael Vick infamously was suspended and spent time in prison for his role in a dog-fighting ring. He was suspended in July 2007 and reinstated two years later.
Donte Stallworth
Donte Stallworth was suspended for the entire 2009 season after an auto accident saw him take the life of a man while the Browns’ wideout was DUI.
Rae Carruth
The Panthers’ Rae Carruth was banned indefinitely in 1999 after he was charged and found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, using an instrument with intent to destroy an unborn child and discharging a firearm into occupied property in the shooting near Carruth’s Charlotte home on Nov. 16, 1999, that led to the death of Cherica Adams. Carruth was convicted of the crime in 2001 and served in prison until October.
Ben Roethlisberger
Ben Roethlisberger was suspended for six games — reduced to four — in 2010 for violation of the league’s personal conduct policy.
Richie Incognito
Richie Incognito has earned multiple bans. In November 2013, he was suspended indefinitely for detrimental conduct as a Miami Dolphin. He was reinstated the following winter.
Ray Rice
Ray Rice was suspended indefinitely in 2014, months after video surfaced of him hitting his wife in an Atlantic City elevator. The Baltimore Ravens’ RB appealed and it was overturned two months later. However, the Ravens cut him and he never played again in the league.
Tom Brady
Tom Brady missed four games in 2016 for his role in the Deflategate scandal. The ban came down in May 2015 but Brady fought it through the courts until the start of the 2016 season.
Greg Hardy
Greg Hardy was suspended for 10 games in 2015 — later reduced to four — for a violation of the league’s personal conduct policy, stemming from a domestic abuse charge.
Josh Brown
One-time Giants kicker Josh Brown received a six-game ban in 2017 for a violation of the league’s personal conduct policy.
Vontaze Burfict
Vontaze Burfict was suspended numerous times during his career with the Bengals. He moved onto the Raiders in 2019 and was banned 12 games after a helmet-to-helmet hit on the Colts’ Jack Doyle.
Mychal Kendricks
Mychal Kendricks received an eight-game ban last season for a violation of the league’s personal conduct policy, stemming from a guilty plea to insider trading.
Myles Garrett
The Browns’ star defensive lineman Myles Garrett was suspended indefinitely Friday after violating unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct rules, fighting, removing the helmet of an opponent, using a helmet as a weapon against the Steelers’ Mason Rudolph.
