{"id":897745,"date":"2026-10-28T17:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897745\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:06:11","slug":"montez-sweat-returns-to-bears-following-devastating-two-game-suspension-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897745\/","title":{"rendered":"Montez Sweat returns to Bears following &#8216;devastating&#8217; two-game suspension | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Bears pass rusher <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/montez-sweat\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Montez Sweat<\/a> took ownership Tuesday of the situation that led to his <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/videos\/montez-sweat-suspended-for-two-games-for-violating-the-nfl-s-performance-enhancing-substances-policy-the-nfl-report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">two-game suspension<\/a> for violating the NFL\u2019s performance-enhancing substance policy.<\/p>\n<p>Sweat said he unintentionally took a banned substance, and noted it was \u201cdevastating\u201d to be away from the team and do damage to his reputation. While declining to go into detail about what he took, the 30-year-old called it \u201caccidental\u201d but noted that he, not his nutritional staff, was responsible for the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely something I\u2019ve got to live with for my career,\u201d Sweat said, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/bears\/2026\/10\/27\/bears-de-montez-sweat-calls-suspension-devastating-accepts-that-it-stains-his-career-and-clouds-his-future\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">via the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>. \u201cI never want to cheat the game, and I would never do it intentionally, but &#8230; I\u2019m moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweat said it was &#8220;tough&#8221; to face coach Ben Johnson after learning of his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody wants to go look someone in the eye after you\u2019ve done something detrimental like that to the team,\u201d Sweat said, &#8220;but those are things you have to do to move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears pass rusher Montez Sweat took ownership Tuesday of the situation that led to his two-game suspension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6255,349,99],"class_list":["post-897745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897745","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=897745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}