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NFL Suspends Former Oklahoma WR Drake Stoops Two Games

As a reserve wideout with the Los Angeles Rams, Stoops was punished for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances.
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Former Oklahoma wide receiver Drake Stoops with the Los Angeles Rams
Former Oklahoma wide receiver Drake Stoops with the Los Angeles Rams | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

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Former Oklahoma wide receiver Drake Stoops has been suspended without pay by the NFL.

Stoops violated the NFL’s policy against performance-enhancing substances, the Rams announced on Tuesday.

Stoops, in his second offseason with the Rams after signing last May as undrafted free agent, didn’t play during his rookie season last year. He was waived by the club in August and not claimed by another team, so the Rams re-signed him for $225,000 plus an $8,000 signing bonus.

In January, he signed a reserve/future contract with the Rams for $840,000.

Stoops, son of Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, walked on at OU in 2018 as a true freshman from Norman North. Stoops played six seasons for the Sooners.

He played in two games as a true freshman, then played in 14 games in 2019.

In 2020, Stoops played in 10 games and caught 15 passes for 219 yards and two touchdowns. In 2021, Stoops caught 16 passes for 191 yards and two TDs.

He broke out as a fifth-year senior in 2022, catching 39 passes for 393 yards and three touchdowns.

Then in 2023, Stoops led the Sooners and the Big 12 Conference with 84 receptions and 10 touchdown grabs, good for 962 yards.

In his OU career, Stoops played in 62 games and hauled in 164 catches for 1,876 yards and 17 touchdowns.

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JOHN HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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