Suspension comes from an incident on Jan. 22, 2013, when Ratliff was still with the Cowboys.
#Bears DL Jeremiah Ratliff suspended for first 3 games for violating NFL Policy & Program for Substances of Abuse. http://t.co/shoGGJB4za
— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) August 24, 2015
Back when he was still going by Jay, Ratliff was arrested on a DWI charge, crashing into a tractor trailer overnight. Failing the sobriety test at the scene. This was, of course, shortly after his teammate was killed in an DWI accident just one month earlier.