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The big mystery that is Randy Gregory shall soon be revealed.
The Dallas Cowboys love stealing talent in the second round of the NFL Draft. For the last several years, they’ve put on their fancy pants and attempted to land a star talent at a discount draft price. In 2014, they got on the phone to secure one of the top picks in the second round when they saw DeMarcus Lawrence slide into Day 2. Smart move. In 2016, they rolled the dice on Jaylon Smith after he suffered a gruesome injury that threatened his football career. While the jury is still out, that decision is also looking more favorable with each new day. And over the last two drafts, the team has watched as a talented first-round level talent fell into their laps in round two. In fact, they loved Connor Williams so much that they passed up an opportunity to trade that pick to Seattle in order to get Earl Thomas.
But then there’s Randy Gregory.
When the Cowboys selected Gregory 60th overall in the 2015 NFL Draft, there were mixed reactions. People knew the inherent gamble involved with a player with Gregory’s red flags. People also knew that he was a talented edge rusher and if somehow he was able to keep his head on straight that he would be a huge steal in the draft. Unfortunately for Dallas, the latter never came to fruition. In the three years since entering the NFL, he’s only played in 14 games - 12 his rookie season in 2015, and two in the 2016 playoffs. After failing multiple drug tests, Gregory’s career in the NFL came to a halt. He did not see the field last season.
Gregory’s official hiatus from the NFL could be ending soon, as a ruling is expected some time within the next week about whether or not the Cowboys troubled pass rusher will be reinstated. What should we expect from this ordeal? Well, Mike Fisher recently provided 10 steps in trying to figure out what it all means. Here are some key things to understand involving the Gregory situation.
When will we know something?
Per Todd Archer of ESPN, the NFL’s substance abuse policy states that once the reinstatement paperwork has been filed, “all individuals involved in the process will take steps to enable the commissioner to render a decision within 60 days of the receipt of the application.”
Nobody seems to know the exact date that Gregory’s paperwork for reinstatement was submitted, but the consensus seems to be that it happened in the second half of May, 2018. Given the 60-day limit for the NFL to make a ruling, we should expect a ruling in time for Cowboys training camp, which opens on July 24.
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https://cowboyszone.com/threads/btb...now-about-the-randy-gregory-situation.409070/
