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Late May is not typically a prime spot on the calendar for NFL news. The draft is over. Training camps haven’t started. The sportsbooks have posted their futures odds for the 2023 season Super Bowl champion, team wins, individual awards, and even weekly game lines, and those odds won’t be changing much for months.
Any pro football news coming out around Memorial Day is as likely to be negative as positive, and that’s the situation going into the holiday weekend. A month after the NFL suspended four players on the Detroit Lions’ 2022 roster'among five the league cited for gambling violations, it’s now reported that a fifth Lion is also under investigation.
did not identify the player in reporting news of the ongoing investigation that has yet to determine wrongdoing, but it stated he “was not a prominent member of the 2022 team.” That was generally the case with the other players suspended in April, although wide receiver Jameson Williams is notable as the Lions’ No. 1 pick in the 2022 draft.