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New Orleans Saints defensive ends Will Smith, Charles Grant have not been suspended yet; could still be eligible to play in Week 1
by Mike Triplett, The Times-Picayune
Saturday September 05, 2009

New Orleans Saints defensive ends Will Smith and Charles Grant apparently will remain on the active roster until a federal appeals court rules on their case against the NFL. Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis said the league has not placed the players on the reserve-suspended list yet, so the team is preparing as if they are eligible.

"We'll be prepared either way," said Loomis, who said the league has not offered the Saints any timetable for making a decision this week

New Orleans Saints defensive ends Will Smith, Charles Grant have not been suspended yet; could still be eligible to play in Week 1 - NOLA.com

NFL considering consecutive suspensions for Smith and Grant?
Posted by Mike Florio on September 5, 2009

According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the league has yet to implement the four-games StarCaps suspensions of Saints defensive ends Charles Grant and Will Smith.

According to a league source, there's a sense that the NFL might ultimately allow Grant and Smith to serve the suspensions consecutively, so that the Saints won't be without both players for 25 percent of the season.

Grant and Smith were poised, were told, to join the Jay Glazer/Randy Couture MMA training regimen for the extent of their four-game suspensions when the Saints learned that they were not yet required to send the players to the reserve-suspended list.

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