Gordon joins Manziel in unique league, proprietor says
Veteran NFL vast receiver Josh Gordon will return to the game in the startup Fan Controlled Football league as a member of the FCF Zappers, team proprietor Bob Menery suggested ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday.
Gordon will join extinct NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel — who became once Gordon’s teammate with the Cleveland Browns — on that team’s roster.
The league, which started play this month, facets 7-on-7 games in which followers situation rosters, name performs and engage in a mix of extinct and esports environments.
Gordon’s on-yet again, off-yet again NFL occupation ran into one other roadblock final month when, as a member of the Seattle Seahawks, he became once suspended indefinitely after the league rescinded his conditional reinstatement.
An NFL spokesperson suggested ESPN at the time that the resolution stemmed from Gordon, 29, violating phrases of his conditional reinstatement below the league’s substance-abuse coverage. No other necessary parts were supplied from the league.
The league suspended Gordon indefinitely in December 2019 for violations of its policies on substance abuse and efficiency-improving substances. That became once Gordon’s sixth suspension since the 2013 season and his fifth for some beget of substance abuse, per ESPN Stats & Files be taught.
Gordon became once conditionally reinstated by the NFL in December and became once situation to seem at with the Seahawks in the last two weeks of the regular season. Coach Pete Carroll talked about at the time that Gordon had of enterprise to play Week 16 in opposition to the Los Angeles Rams. But that identical week, the NFL placed him on the commissioner’s exempt record.
Gordon signed a one-year deal with the Seahawks before final season started.
In 63 NFL games, he has 247 receptions, 4,252 yards and 20 touchdowns. He became once drafted by the Browns in the 2d round of the 2012 NFL supplemental draft, after playing at Utah and Baylor.
FCF groups are playing a six-week time desk, with games are residing-streamed on Twitch from a league-leased facility in Atlanta. The games final about an hour, and the area is 50-by-35 yards with 10-yard cease zones.
Avid gamers bear backgrounds from the FBS and FCS college levels, along with the CFL, XFL and the Indoor Football League, Manziel among them.
Earlier than FCF, Manziel, 28, final performed football in April 2019 for the Alliance of American Football and furthermore has performed in The Spring League and the CFL since the Browns released him in 2015.