Ravens safety Matt Elam has been suspended by the NFL for one game that he wasn’t going to play anyway.
The Ravens announced today that the NFL suspended Elam without pay for one game for violating the league’s Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse.
That doesn’t mean much to the Ravens, as Elam is on injured reserve anyway. But it does mean he’ll lose one-seventeenth of his salary this season: Players on injured reserve still get paid, but players under suspension do not. Elam’s base salary this year was $1.02 million, so one week without pay means he’ll lose about $60,000.
Elam was the Ravens’ first-round pick in 2013. He started 26 games in his first two seasons before suffering a torn bicep in August of this year.