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Former Alabama Football Great Rolando McClain Appears Out Of Chances

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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Former Alabama football great Rolando McClain appears out of chances to regain his NFL career after being suspended indefinitely without pay Friday for violating the league’s policy on substances of abuse.

NFL Network reported that McClain, who most recently played for the Dallas Cowboys, earned the indefinite suspension on top of the 10-game suspension he’s currently serving that was scheduled to end Monday, and there are doubts he will get to play again in the NFL after recently missing another drug test.

McClain is likely to appeal the latest suspension, according to ESPN. McClain was serving the current suspension for testing positive for opiates.

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“… I can’t talk about anything to do [with McClain] because I’m not allowed to know anything about his testing,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said after the team’s 27-17 win over the Baltimore Ravens. “And so that’s all I can say there…when he’s eligible we won’t release him and when he’s eligible he’ll be a part of this team. He had gotten in good shape and so we’ll just deal with what we find out with his status with the league.”

On McClain’s contract status for next year, Jones said: “I can’t talk about those items because it might imply that I knew something about his status and I don’t want to lose a draft pick.”

Jones had previously said McClain would not be back with the team when his suspension was scheduled to end Monday.

Players suspended for a year or longer do not have a high success rate of returning. McClain will be out until at least November 2017 before he’s eligible to apply for reinstatement.

McClain won the 2009 Lambert Award and Butkus Award for the best collegiate linebacker after his junior year with Alabama football, where he made 105 tackles including 14.5 tackles for loss, four sacks, 14mquarterback hurries, two interceptions, three passes broken up, and a forced fumble. He was recognized a unanimous first-team All-American, after being named to the first teams of the American Football Coaches Association, Associated Press, Football Writers Association of America, Sporting News, and Walter Camp Football Foundation.

McClain was drafted No. 8 overall by the Oakland Raiders in 2010.