{"id":374285,"date":"2025-12-29T02:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374285\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T02:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:44:16","slug":"nfl-hit-giants-deonte-banks-with-a-drug-test-after-his-best-play-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374285\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL hit Giants&#8217; Deonte Banks with a drug test after his best play of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/new-york-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a> cornerback Deonte Banks made his biggest play of the season on Sunday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/las-vegas-raiders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Banks took a kickoff back 95 yards for a return touchdown, finding himself in the clear for a triumphant sprint to the end zone in what has been a relatively frustrating season for the high-pedigree defensive back.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL noticed.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Banks was given a slip for a drug test.<\/p>\n<p>The postgame drug tests are supposed to be given out randomly. But there seems to be a tendency for guys who had big games to get called.<\/p>\n<p>Banks shared this reality on his Instagram story:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Deonte Banks on IG <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iMpeTGxLkJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/iMpeTGxLkJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pat Leonard (@PLeonardNYDN) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PLeonardNYDN\/status\/2005434739327631834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">December 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/deion-sanders-reaction-shedeur-terrible-interception-tells-whole-story\/afba53142ad70faeaa51b8aa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deion Sanders&#8217; reaction to Shedeur&#8217;s terrible interception tells the whole story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Banks&#8217; return may not have been the favorite of every Giants fan.<\/p>\n<p>He helped them win a game that knocked them out of the spot for the No. 1 overall pick in favor of the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a big moment for Banks&#8217; career to prove he&#8217;s explosive, and he just had to deal with the postgame reality that the NFL gave him.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Giants cornerback Deonte Banks made his biggest play of the season on Sunday against the Las&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-374285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}