GREEN BAY, Wis. – Green Bay Packers tight end Jace Sternberger’s career is going nowhere first.
As a third-round pick in 2019, he missed most of training camp with a concussion and the start of the regular season with an ankle injury.
In 2020, he missed a big chunk of training camp after testing positive for COVID.
And now, he was suspended by the NFL on Thursday for the first two games of the upcoming season after violating the league policy on substances of abuse. While he will be able to participate in training camp and the three-game preseason, he will miss season-opening games against New Orleans and Detroit.
Sternberger was supposed to be the premier tight end the team had lacked for years. Instead, he’s fallen hopelessly behind Robert Tonyan for that role. In fact, for last year’s playoffs, he was inactive in favor of Dominique Dafney, a midseason addition to the practice…
