FLOWERY BRANCH – Falcons cornerback Jalen Collins, who lined up at right cornerback in the team's nickel and with the second-team in the base, addressed his four-game suspension for using performing enhancing drugs for the first time on Monday.
“I was just going through some things last year and made a mistake,” Collins told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I’m paying for it now.”
He would not reveal what drug led to the violation or if it was a supplement that he was taking.
“I’m not committing on what it was,” Collins said. “It’s just something that I’m dealing with.”
Collins, a second-round pick in the 2015 draft out of LSU, was expected to contend for the starting right cornerback spot. He seemed to be holding out hope for an appeal.
“We are doing what we can, right now, we are just taking it one day at a time,” Collins said. “We are trying to do everything that we can, at the end of the day it that’s what it comes to, that how we’ll have to deal with it.”
Falcons coach Dan Quinn was not aware of any appeal and is planning on not having Collins for four games.
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