{"id":819265,"date":"2026-03-18T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/819265\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:46:14","slug":"saints-db-suspended-to-begin-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/819265\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints DB suspended to begin 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The NFL has announced that New Orleans Saints defensive back Beanie Bishop will be suspended for the first three games of the 2026 regular season. While not confirmed by the league, The Advocate\u2019s Matthew Paras reported that Bishop\u2019s suspension may be a result of a policy infraction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The former West Virginia Mountaineer spent the 2024 season with the Pittsburgh Steelers before the Saints made the move to sign Bishop to their practice squad in December of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the suspension notice, the NFL made clear that the cornerback\u2019s suspension will not prevent him from participating in practices or preseason games. It will officially take effect once rosters are trimmed down to 53 players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL has announced that New Orleans Saints defensive back Beanie Bishop will be suspended for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,896,55,401,2588,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-819265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-orleans","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints-news","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints-roster","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116250724858970591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}