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 will likely be eligible for reinstatement following the workforce’s Week 8 recreation 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 through 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 lady. 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 mentioned that they’re “100% false.” In July 2024, Miller mentioned that the case is closed. No expenses had been ever filed within the case, however the NFL had been conducting a separate investigation.
An affidavit obtained by ESPN final 12 months detailed that the allegations in opposition to Miller embrace him placing a hand, and later each arms, on the lady’s neck for about three to 5 seconds, pulling her hair and making an attempt to shove her whereas she was making an attempt to assemble her issues and depart after he instructed her to get out of the house the place they each lived.
Per the affidavit, the lady instructed Miller she was going to name the police, which prompted him to go away the residence.
Police arrived on the condominium, noticed “minor abrasions” on the lady’s left hand and bruising to her neck, “accidents in step with utilized strain the neck,” along with bruising to her stomach and left biceps. The accidents had been documented when police took pictures that day.
When addressing the allegations for the primary time in December 2023, Miller mentioned, “Truthfully, I wasn’t on social media earlier than and undoubtedly not on social media now. However from the issues which were dropped at my consideration, every thing is fake. And I might love to sit down right here and say, ‘Y’all know me!’ But it surely’s not, this isn’t that sort of state of affairs as a result of home violence actually occurs all over the world — 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 beginning will get set straight.”
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell mentioned in March that he did take into account putting Miller on the commissioner’s exempt listing, however that they didn’t really feel it was applicable on the time primarily based on all of the details. The commissioner’s listing makes gamers exempt from counting in opposition to the energetic roster for causes decided by the commissioner.
Miller restructured his contract this offseason, saving the Payments $8.645 million in cap house. He signed a six-year cope with the workforce in 2022.
He served a six-game suspension for performance-enhancing medicine in 2013.
Miller, 35, serves a rotational position on the Payments’ line of defense 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’ follow squad in a corresponding transfer.