{"id":20834,"date":"2025-10-08T23:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/odell-beckham-jr-banned-for-six-games-for-failed-drugs-test\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:48:13","slug":"odell-beckham-jr-banned-for-six-games-for-failed-drugs-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/odell-beckham-jr-banned-for-six-games-for-failed-drugs-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Odell Beckham Jr banned for six games for failed drugs test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Free agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr has been banned for six games by the NFL for failing a drugs test.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old said he accepted the suspension but had never knowingly taken performance-enhancing substances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beckham said he was told his testosterone levels were too high following a test last season while playing for the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can say whatever you want about me. I stand firm in knowing who I am today,&#8221; Beckham told The Pivot Podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I ain&#8217;t never cheated anybody but myself. I&#8217;m going to stand on that and I&#8217;m going to keep it going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/c784p4258ggo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr has been banned for six games by the NFL for failing a drugs test. The 32-year-old said he accepted the suspension but had never knowingly taken performance-enhancing substances. Beckham said he was told his testosterone levels were too high following a test last season while playing for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20836,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834\/revisions\/20836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}