Per Phillip Heilman of the Florida Times-Union, the Jacksonville Jaguars have placed the former first-round draft pick out of Florida on the team’s Active/Physically Unable to Perform list with an undisclosed injury.
Dante Fowler was not a participant at the team’s OTAs or minicamp in May. It is believed the defensive end has an upper-body injury.
As I wrote on Friday, Fowler was suspended by the NFL for the first game of the season for violating the NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy. Per ESPN.com and other websites, the news of Fowler’s suspension comes after he pleaded no contest to charges of battery, criminal mischief and petit theft in which he was arrested for last July in his hometown of St.