The NFL announced that Jaguars WR Calvin Ridley has been reinstated.
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He was suspended indefinitely in March of last year for gambling. He’s now eligible to participate in all team activities immediately.
The Jaguars opted to trade a 2023 fifth-round draft pick and a 2024 conditional fourth-round selection to the Falcons for him at last season’s trade deadline.
Ridley, 28, is a former first-round pick of the Falcons back in 2018 out of Alabama. He played out the fourth year of his four-year, $10,900,732 contract that included a $6,007,804 signing bonus.
The Falcons exercised Ridley’s fifth-year option last offseason which will cost Atlanta $11.116 million fully guaranteed in 2022. However it was tolled a year following his suspension for gambling. The Jaguars acquired the deal as a part of the trade.
In 2021, Ridley appeared in five games for the Falcons and caught 31 passes for 281 yards receiving and two touchdowns.
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