{"id":813804,"date":"2026-08-14T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813804\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:08:08","slug":"bills-dt-phidarian-mathis-suspended-three-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813804\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills DT Phidarian Mathis suspended three games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL has suspended defensive tackle Phidarian Mathis for the first three games of the season for violating its substances of abuse policy.<\/p>\n<p>Mathis can practice and play in the preseason, with his suspension starting on Aug. 30. He becomes eligible for reinstatement on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension stems from an alcohol-related incident in spring of 2025 when Mathis played for the Jets, Alaina Getzenberg of ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mathis had 13 tackles in six games for the Bills last season and also appeared in one playoff game.<\/p>\n<p>Mathis appeared in 23 games over three seasons with Washington before signing with Buffalo. He had 25 tackles and a fumble recovery during his time with the NFC East squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL has suspended defensive tackle Phidarian Mathis for the first three games of the season for violating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-813804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}