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Goodell meets with Marshall, Henry; Suspensions to come?

NFL.com’s Adam Schefter has the stories of two troubled receivers, both called into New York on Monday to meet with Roger Goodell.

In Marshall’s case, as I wrote earlier today, he has been arrested three times in the past year. That’s obviously not good. However, he has yet to be convicted on any charges. Therefore, I thought he would only get a one or two games suspension, if any.

Schefter, though, says Marshall could be gone for four to eight games. Wow, I didn’t think it would be that severe. I guess Goodell doesn’t consider being found guilty staying out of trouble. If he’s suspended this long, the Broncos would be in trouble. He’s their best receiving threat, and they need him desperately, even with how well they can run the ball.

Chris Henry is currently not on an NFL team after being cut by the Bengals following his fifth arrest in his short NFL career, shortly followed by an indefinite suspension. Even though those charges were dropped, Schefter thinks that Henry might not be reinstated, if he is at all, until the middle of the season. Despite the fact that he wasn’t convicted, he’s been in trouble so many times that this would be the right punishment. I guess he offered good reasoning, though(uh, ya, I’ve gotten unlucky, been in the wrong place at the wrong time five times. It happens).

If he is reinstated, there would be some teams interested in him, maybe even the Cowboys.

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