I’m not sure why, but the Minnesota Vikings plan to keep Daunte Culpepper around for a while.

Vikings owner Zygi Wilf told reporters Saturday at the NFL scouting combine that the team planned to pay Culpepper a $6 million roster bonus he is scheduled to receive March 17, the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press both reported.

When he was asked if Culpepper figures in the team’s 2006 plans, Wilf said “That is our plan, yes. Always was.”

The best thing that happened to the Vikings last season was Culpepper’s injury. He was dreadful in the first seven games, passing for only six touchdowns against 12 interceptions. What’s worse, the team got off to a 2-5 start under his guidance. It seemed like he really missed the presence of Randy Moss, who left in the team in the offseason. Brad Johnson took Culpepper’s place and led the team to a 7-2 record down the stretch.

I suspect the Vikings are going to regret not moving Culpepper this offseason. He’s not a very accurate passer and would probably do better in Arizona or Oakland where he can just throw the ball up and let talented receivers like Moss and Larry Fitzgerald go up and get it.

It seemed like a lock once the season was done. The Texans gave QB David Carr a three-year contract extension and said they were planning to select USC RB Reggie Bush with the first overall pick. But it appears that they are reconsidering.

Texans general manager Charley Casserly said Sunday the Texans have been talking to teams about possibly trading the first pick in the 2006 draft.

“There’s clearly players at the top of this draft that are marquee players,” Casserly said. “Players that are impact players, players that are going to go to the Pro Bowl, players that are going to sell tickets. We’re going to get offers for this pick. We’ve already had discussions with teams. I think there’s value in our pick.

I think Reggie Bush is a phenomenal talent, but I’m not sure he’s an every down back that you expect to get with the #1 pick. If the Texans want to use him in the same way that the Eagles use Brian Westbrook, he’d be worth the first pick, but they do have a very capable back in Domanick Davis and have a ton of other holes to fill. Trading down might be the smart move.

The NBA season is just past its halfway mark and there are a number of teams that have stopped thinking about the playoffs and have started thinking about the NBA draft [Insider subscription required]. Overall, this year’s crop of players is considered weak, and there isn’t a clear cut #1 pick.

For now, there seems to be a consensus on the top three, and they’re all underclassmen. Connecticut’s Rudy Gay is a long, athletic small forward who has good range on his jumper. I’ve seen him play a couple of times and, thus far, he seems a bit soft. He floats around the perimeter and doesn’t seem to have much of a midrange game. He also doesn’t seem very intense, which is a problem when you start talking about taking someone with the #1 pick.

Gonzaga’s Adam Morrison is the sentimental favorite for a lot of (white) fans. He has a Larry Bird quality about him and is a fierce competitor. He has a ton of range on his jumpshot and has an excellent midrange game. His only weakness is his athleticism, and it is more apparent on defense. This is only going to get worse at the next level as he’ll be playing small forward in the NBA.

The third player is LaMarcus Aldridge of Texas. He’s going to be a power forward in the NBA and has a good offensive game, both facing the basket and with his back to it. The only knock on him at this point is that he’ll need to add muscle to his frame.

With this much uncertainty over the best player in the draft, it will likely come down to which team wins the lottery. That team will probably draft the player that best fits their needs.

I say “proabably” because there is no telling what the Blazers or the Hawks would do. (Last year, they both passed on Chris Paul to take small forward projects.)

There’s a surprisingly light slate of games this week in college hoops. The marquee matchup is tonight when #9 Pittsburgh visits #18 West Virginia. Also, Florida State has been coming on lately so they may give #1 Duke a run for their money on Wednesday. In the NBA, the best game this week is the Dallas/San Antonio matchup on Thursday.

College Hoops
Mon, 7pm: (9) Pittsburgh @ (18) West Virginia - ESPN (HD)
Wed, 7pm: (1) Duke @ Florida St. - ESPN (HD)
Wed, 8pm: Kentucky @ (11) Tennessee - ESPN Full Court
Thurs, 7pm: (25) Wisconsin @ (23) Michigan St. - ESPN (HD)
Thurs, 9:30pm: (3) Memphis @ UAB - ESPN2
Thurs, 10:30pm: (13) UCLA @ California - local

NBA
Mon, 7pm: Detroit @ Cleveland - local
Wed, 9pm: Detroit @ Denver - local
Wed, 9pm: Philadelphia @ Houston - ESPN (HD)
Wed, 10:30pm: NO/Oklahoma City @ LA Clippers - local
Thurs, 7pm: Cleveland @ Chicago - TNT (HD)
Thurs, 9:30pm: Dallas @ San Antonio - TNT (HD)

The NFL combine in Indianapolis is half over and the biggest story so far [Insider subscription required] is that Vince Young bombed the Wonderlic test (which is designed to test a player’s mind). Word is, on his first try, he scored a 6. On his second, he scored a 16, according to his agent. He’s supposed to take it a third time.

Todd McShay from Scouts, Inc. writes:

Just as a barometer, the highest score registered at last year’s scouting combine was a 40 (QB Alex Smith) and the lowest score was a 6 (RB Frank Gore). I also have been told by an NFL scout that the other two top quarterbacks this year fared much better on this test, with USC’s Matt Leinart scoring a 35 (at the combine) and Vanderbilt’s Jay Cutler scoring a 29 (in a test given prior to the combine).

If the reports were true, Young’s draft stock stands to be significantly affected, especially with Cutler continuing to skyrocket up most teams’ draft boards. When I asked one scout from the AFC if he thought Young would still be a top-five draft pick if the rumor turns out to be true, he answered, “Sure … as a wide receiver, though.”

As expected, Cutler shined during his four days in Indianapolis. The only quarterback to voluntarily bench press at the combine in the last two years, Cutler put up the standard 225-pound bar 23 times. He ran the 40-yard dash in 4.78 seconds and wowed the NFL brass in attendance with his strong arm and accuracy during the passing drills Sunday. Cutler’s interviews have also impressed several interested teams, including the New Orleans Saints, who currently own the draft’s second overall pick.

It remains to be seen how much Young’s draft stock is hurt by these scores. The results of his third test won’t be released until next week. But, for now, you have to think that Cutler has moved ahead of Young on most teams’ draft boards.

I’m an avid Duke fan (since the ‘86 Johnny Dawkins-led team lost to Louisville in the NCAA finals) and I often wonder why there is such an anti-Duke sentiment these days. Then I think about how I root against the Yankees, Lakers, Wolverines, and to a lesser extent the Patriots, and I realize why. Nobody likes a winner. As much of a frontrunning crowd we can be locally, we’re definitely like the underdogs nationally. It probably stems from the whole Revolutionary War thing…but I digress.

For me, Duke epitomizes all that is right about college basketball. Coach K gets his kids to play hard on both ends of the court each and every night, and that’s not common in today’s game.

Enter J.J. Redick, who is by far the sport’s most reviled player. On one hand, I can see why a lot of people dislike the guy. During his first two seasons, he was bratty as hell, talking sh*t and/or bobbing his head after every made bucket. But the last two seasons, I’ve seen him grown from a cocky kid into a confident man. Oh, and he’s arguably the best shooter that the game has ever seen.

ESPN’s Pat Forde wrote a nice article about the other side of J.J. Redick.

The kid had been an immediate success in Durham, maybe too immediate for his long-term good. He averaged 15 points per game as a freshman and 15.9 as a sophomore, helping the Blue Devils to the Final Four. But after a come-from-ahead loss to eventual champion Connecticut in the national semifinals — in which Redick missed a crucial late shot — it was time for a critical re-evaluation of the prodigy’s progress.

Redick was crushed by the UConn loss and stumbled through a depressed period. He didn’t get a whole lot of sympathy from the Duke coaches, who gave him this tough-love appraisal of his game: You’re overweight, underdisciplined and uncommitted to fulfilling your potential.

“He had to make a decision,” Duke assistant Chris Collins said. “We told him, ‘You can be a good player for four years and be on good teams. Or do you want to be great?’ It would require drastic changes in his lifestyle and a commitment he’d never given. That was a moment of truth for him as a basketball player.”

So he listened to the criticisms from the coaches, accepted them and got down to the task of reinventing himself.

“We regimented his whole summer,” Collins said. “Every hour of every day was accounted for, and he followed it. Now it’s become who he is.”

Who is he now? A disciplined, superbly conditioned athlete who has become the leading scorer in Duke history and soon will be the leading scorer in Atlantic Coast Conference history.

Said J.J.: “Early on in my career, I definitely had an annoying persona, a brash persona on the court. I’d talk trash or head-bob after making a shot. A lot of that stemmed from insecurities. I wasn’t sure how good I could be or who I was.

“I still might grin — I won’t use a cussword, but you know what grin I’m talking about — on the court. But that’s just because I’m having fun. I try to be humble. I realize that any talent I have is a result of God’s blessing. I don’t feel the need to [talk trash] as much anymore.”

In this weekend’s game against Temple, Redick did break the ACC scoring record. It’s quite an accomplishment, considering that the record lasted for 51 years.

And while I understand all the hate, I sure don’t agree with it.

The calendar is about to flip to March, which means it’s time to start thinking about two things: NCAA hoops and fantasy baseball.

So what’s on your mind? Struggling with some keeper decisions, or wondering when it’s safe to take Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds and Randy Johnson? Maybe you want someone to tell you you’re crazy for thinking Michael Young is a better bet at short than Miguel Tejada, or that this is the year Mark Prior wins 20 and strikes out 220.

Sleepers, keepers, drafts, busts, rookies, risks; whatever fantasy baseball questions you’ve got, post them here and we’ll give you our thoughts.

And remember: Opening Day is April 2!

ESPN’s Bill Simmons hit one out of the park with his facetious first-annual Atrocious GM Summit, which brought some of the league’s current and former atrocious GMs together for a frank conversation.

My favorite bit - Simmons interviews former Knicks GM Scott Layden about what current GM Isiah Thomas has done:

Simmons: So you like what Isiah has done?

Layden: Hell, yeah. Take the Francis trade, if it happens: Logically, it makes no sense because Francis and Marbury are the same player — expensive, shoot-first point guards with huge entourages and attitude problems who have never won anything. Even if you’re getting Francis for nothing, it still makes no sense on paper.

For example, let’s say you spent $3,000 on a living room sofa two years ago that you didn’t really like. To make the sofa stand out a little less, you bought a leather chair for $2,200 that doesn’t match –.

Simmons: Marbury is the sofa and Jamal Crawford is the chair in this case?

Layden: Precisely. And the room still looks bad. So now, you’re on Craigslist and you see that someone is selling another $3,000 sofa for $900 that’s almost exactly like the sofa you have. And there’s no way you would ever want two big, ugly sofas in the same room. It would just look ridiculous. But your mind-set is, “Hey, how can I turn down a $3,000 sofa for $900?” So you buy the sofa and stick it in the room, which is now cluttered with stuff since you also spent another $10,000 on some crummy art, a coffee table with support problems, two giant bookcases that have to be turned sideways, some wobbly end tables and a smashed sculpture that was patched back together with duct tape. But since it’s too late to go back, you spend another $5,000 on an interior decorator to make the room work. Well, you know what would happen? He wouldn’t be able to make it work. You bought too much crap.

See, this is why Isiah is a genius: He’s assembling the basketball version of that nightmare living room, and he has the fans convinced that either the expensive interior decorator — in this case, Larry Brown — will be able to make everything work, or he can somehow swap some of that furniture to one of his neighbors for a first-class piece of art. And he’s spending an ungodly amount of money! And you never hear rumors that he might get fired! I think it’s a tribute to him and his staff. He’s the best-ever at being an atrocious GM. He really is.

Thomas: Thank you, Scott, that means a lot.

He mentioned Craigslist. You gotta love it!

It’s shaping up to be a pretty good weekend of basketball, with four Top 25 matchups in college basketball, highlighted by the monster rematch between #2 Villanova and #4 UConn on Sunday. That game will definitely have NCAA tournament (#1-seeding) implications. In the NBA, the most appealing game is on Sunday, when the Cavs and Pistons face off. Though I’m definitely watching the Clippers/Lakers, hoping that the Clips can topple the overexposed Lakers.

College Hoops
Sat, 1:30pm: Michigan @ (12) Ohio St. - CBS
Sat, 3:45pm: (13) Boston College @ (14) N.C. State - CBS
Sat, 6pm: (22) Iowa @ (8) Illinois - ESPN
Sat, 9pm: (18) Kansas @ (7) Texas - ESPN
Sun, 2pm: (2) Villanova @ (4) UConn - CBS

NBA
Fri, 8pm: San Antonio @ Memphis - local
Fri, 8pm: New Jersey @ New York - ESPN
Fri, 10:30pm: LA Lakers @ LA Clippers - ESPN
Sun, 12:00pm: Cleveland @ Detroit - ABC
Sun, 7:30pm: Boston @ LA Lakers - ESPN

Do you think the Portland Trailblazers would like a do-over of the 2005 draft after this incident?

Portland Trail Blazers guard Sebastian Telfair was suspended for two games by the NBA for violating the league’s firearms policy.

The suspension stems from the discovery of a loaded firearm during a preflight inspection on the team’s private plane following a game in Boston earlier this month.

Telfair claims that the gun was his girlfriend’s and that he grabbed her bag by mistake. It just so happens that his girlfriend was leaving on a trip the same day and that she was traveling with a gun.

Believe that? I can give you one hell of a price on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Blazers originally held the #3 overall pick and considered taking this year’s Rookie of the Year frontrunner Chris Paul with the pick, but ultimately decided that Telfair was their point guard of the future. Maybe he still is, but I have to think that bringing a gun onto the team’s private plane has to make them wonder - why didn’t we take Paul?

The two hardest positions to fill are point guard and center. Look around the league. It’s filled with capable and talented shooting guards and forwards. So I don’t blame the Bucks for taking Andrew Bogut with the first pick. Skilled seven footers are hard to come by and they already had T.J. Ford on the roster. And I’ve already talked about Atlanta’s decision to pass on CP3 with the second overall pick.

But what about Portland? What exactly were they thinking?

ESPN’s Chad Ford writes:

They eventually traded the pick to the Jazz for the No. 6 and No. 27 picks in the draft. They used the No. 6 pick on high school phenom Martell Webster. GM John Nash said after the draft that had the Blazers kept the pick, they still would’ve drafted Webster at No. 3.

Like Knight in Atlanta, Nash has blundered in Portland and might lose his job by summer over errors like passing on Paul. Nash said in an interview after the draft that he believed Telfair was “ahead of the curve” in comparing him to Paul. That clearly hasn’t been the case. There isn’t an NBA scout I’ve talked to who thinks Telfair is in the same league as Paul as a point guard or as a prospect. The Blazers missed badly on this one. Their love affair with high school stars, Telfair and Webster included, has left them in the NBA cellar.

Why would you pass on a proven floor leader like Paul for another high school phenom who plays small forward, the same position as Darius Miles and Ruben Patterson?

The Denver Nuggets, Seattle SuperSonics and the Portland Trailblazers have completed a trade before the NBA’s trade deadline today (3pm ET). See the trade here.

I’m not sure what this does for the Nuggets. They have been trying to upgrade their off guard position and decided to trade a borderline starter at the point (Earl Watson) for a small forward (Ruben Patterson) and a rebounder (Reggie Evans).

Is Watson going to play behind Luke Ridnour in Seattle? It’s probably not a bad trade for the Sonics asset-wise as they jettison Evans, who wanted a trade, for Watson.

All of this NBA trade talk made me wonder - who are the most overpaid players in the league?

Here’s a list:

2. Allan Houston - $19.1 M (1)
Chris Webber - $19.1 (2)
4. Michael Finley - $18.6 (2)
6. Stephon Marbury - $16.5 (3)
10. Brian Grant - $16.1 (1)
13. Anfernee Hardaway - $15.8 (0)
14. Grant Hill - $15.7 (1)
Keith Van Horn - $15.7 (0)
Jalen Rose - $15.7 (1)
18. Eddie Jones - $14.6 (1)
19. Tim Thomas - $14.0 (0)
20. Antonio Davis - $13.9 (0)

The number in parenthesis are the number of years that each player has left on his contract. Finley is in a special situation - he is still getting paid by the Mavericks, but is also under contract with the Spurs. You can see the entire list at Hoops Hype.

But Allan Houston obviously takes the cake, as he’s not even playing anymore. His salary is expected to come off the books after this season due to his injury-forced retirement. But some of these contracts are valuable, as teams can dump salary if their contracts are up this season. This is the case with the Steve Francis / Penny Hardaway swap that was finalized yesterday.

The Indianapolis Colts have come to terms with WR Reggie Wayne.

The extension, which is expected to be officially executed later this week, could be worth nearly $40 million and includes bonuses totaling $13 million-$14 million.

Securing Wayne means that Indianapolis still has the franchise marker available, and could use it to keep tailback Edgerrin James, who is eligible for unrestricted free agency. It is unlikely, however, given the cap ramifications, that Indianapolis will tag James for a second year in a row. At the Pro Bowl last week, the veteran tailback indicated to ESPN.com that he is prepared to play elsewhere in 2006.

Wayne over Edge? Man, RBs in the NFL aren’t nearly as valuable as they are in my fantasy league.

The trade has been finalized.

New York Knickerbockers President of Basketball Operations Isiah Thomas announced today that three-time NBA All-Star guard Steve Francis has been acquired from the Orlando Magic in exchange for guard/forward Anfernee Hardaway and forward Trevor Ariza.

I don’t know much about Ariza, but it looks like this is a salary dump from Orlando’s perspective. The original rumor had Jamal Crawford and Mo Taylor heading to the Magic.

Stephon Marbury and Steve Francis in the same backcourt. Now this should be interesting.

There’s a good chance that QB Drew Brees won’t be a Charger next season. Brees and the franchise have had trouble reaching an agreement on a new contract, mainly due to Brees’ injured shoulder.

The Chargers don’t want to name Brees as their transition player because that would guarantee his salary for 2006, and the team is not sure he’ll be ready to play.

Brees underwent surgery last month and is expected to begin throwing in May. But whether he is at full strength by the Chargers’ July training camp isn’t known.

Brees and the Chargers are talking about a multiyear pact. But so far, no agreement has been reached and on March 3, Brees can negotiate with any team.

The Dolphins are expected to make a strong run at Brees if he hits free agency.

The New York Times is reporting that the Knicks are close to finalizing a trade that would bring Orlando guard Steve Francis to New York.

The current proposal, according to the source, would send guard Jamal Crawford, forward Maurice Taylor and possibly the swingman Trevor Ariza to Orlando. The Knicks would obtain Francis and forward Pat Garrity.

Francis and the Magic have been on the outs since the team suspended the guard for two games last month for refusing to enter a game. Francis later apologized, but since the incident several teams have inquired about his availability.

This is really a Crawford for Francis swap, and the Knicks would be getting the better end of the deal talent-wise. Whether a Stephon Marbury/Francis backcourt would work better than a Marbury/Crawford backcourt is uncertain. Marbury and Francis are two of the most talented guards in the league, though I’m not sure I’d want either guy on my squad. I prefer Francis to Marbury, but both are shot happy and it is unclear that the two could co-exist successfully in the league’s biggest, most intense market. One possibility is that this is a precursor to a second deal that would send Marbury out of town.

Since the NBA went to a six-division format, the top three seeds in each conference have gone to the three division winners. If the playoffs were today, the two best teams in the West, Dallas (41-11) and San Antonio (40-12), would potentially face each other in the second round of the playoffs. The league is considering its options to avoid such a situation in the future.

“I think the one thing there may be some interest in … would be to maybe look at how you seed the top four teams,” deputy commissioner Russ Granik said Saturday. “One thing that we have kicked around is whether you might say, all right, those same four teams are going to get the top four seeds, but maybe you do it in accordance with their records.”

I hear the argument that the Mavs, if they’re going to reach the NBA Finals, are going to have to beat the Spurs eventually, whether it’s in the second round or in the West Finals - so why bother changing the format? Well, for two reasons: (1) the playoffs should be set up so that the two best teams in each conference meet in their respective conference finals - that’s the marquee matchup that the fans want (2) if the Mavs have the #1 seed they should be rewarded by not having to face the #2 seed until the conference finals - the Spurs could lose their second round series.

In the end, you don’t want a second round series to be the biggest matchup in the conference playoffs. It’s too bad that the league won’t be able to avoid that this year.

This week is kind of light in both the college and pro basketball arenas. The week’s best college matchup - UT/Florida - isn’t even on national television. Oddly enough, the week’s best NBA matchup - Clippers/Mavs - isn’t either. Maybe the week’s most interesting matchup is on Thursday, when Ron Artest visits Kobe in LA.

College Hoops
Tues, 7pm: (8) Illinois @ Michigan - ESPN
Wed, 8pm: (11) Tennessee @ (9) Florida - local
Wed, 8pm: (12) Ohio St. @ (16) Michigan St. - ESPN Full Court
Wed, 9pm: (21) North Carolina @ (14) N.C. State - ESPN Full Court

NBA
Tues, 8:30pm: LA Clippers (30-21) @ Dallas (41-11) - local
Wed, 9pm: Milwaukee (27-25) @ Chicago (23-29) - ESPN
Thurs, 8pm: Indiana (26-23) @ Detroit (42-9) - TNT
Thurs, 8:30pm: Memphis (29-23) @ Dallas (41-11) - local
Thurs, 10:30pm: Sacramento (24-29) @ LA Lakers (26-26) - TNT

I hate Barry Bonds. There, I said it. You all feel the same way, or most of you do, anyway. What’s not to hate? The guy uses steroids while chasing down one of the most sacred records in professional sports, denies ever using anything illegal, then tries to convince us that his steroid use was unintentional after his grand jury testimony was leaked to the press, bashes the media for reporting the story (”You all have dirt in your closets. Clean out your own closet before cleaning out someone else’s.”), and plays the victim in front of cameras while rehabbing his knee (”You guys [the media] wanted to hurt me bad enough, you finally got there. You wanted me to jump off a bridge, I finally have jumped. You wanted to bring me down, you’ve finally brought me and my family down.”).

And now, there’s this quote from Bonds in a recent USA Today article:

“I’m not playing baseball anymore after this. The game [isn’t] fun anymore. I’m tired of all of the [stuff] going on. I want to play this year out, hopefully win, and once the season is over, go home and be with my family. Maybe then everybody can just forget about me.”

I would love nothing better than to forget about Barry Bonds, but that ain’t happening. In fact, it looks like Bonds may not even retire after this season, despite the above quote. Bonds later “clarified” his statement to USA Today in a phone interview with MLB.com:

“If I can play [in 2007], I’m going to play; if I can’t I won’t. If my knee holds up, I’ll keep on going. I’m playing psychological games with myself right now. I don’t want to set myself up for disappointment if things don’t work out this season. So I go back and forth. Back and forth every day. These are the things that are going through my mind. This is what I’m struggling with.”

Do us all a favor, Barry: next time you go back, don’t bother coming forth. Just go away. I’d love to see him walk away before getting the seven homers he needs to pass Babe Ruth, but that’s a pipe dream. So let’s compromise: Get your 715 home runs, and then go away. Forever. Nobody wants to hear from you anymore. Nobody wants to see you whining to a bunch of reporters that they’re the reason you’re unhappy. Nobody wants to be subjected to these kinds of quotes anymore:

“Baseball is a fun sport. But I’m not having fun. I love the game of baseball itself, but I don’t like what it’s turned out to be. I’m not mad at anybody. It’s just that right now I am not proud to be a baseball player.”

If you’re not proud of being a baseball player, maybe you should look at some of the decision you’ve made throughout your career instead of blaming the sport, the media and the fans.

Baseball is what it is today because guys like Barry Bonds think they are bigger than the game. The only way to cure that is for guys like Barry Bonds to just walk away.

Looks like we may have seen the last of Ricky Williams on the football field:

Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams has violated the NFL’s substance abuse policy for a fourth time and is facing a one-year suspension from the league, Denver television station KDVR reported on Sunday.

The Miami Herald, citing two sources of its own, confirmed the station’s report that Williams has violated the policy, although neither source would say whether Williams had failed a drug test or if he had missed a required test, which also is a violation.

In their Rumor Mill, ProFootballTalk.com reports the violation was indeed a missed test, not a failed one, but adds:

The difference is technical. Either action is a violation of the substance abuse policy, and a violation (for Williams) most likely will trigger a minimum suspension of one year. During the suspension, he still will be expected to submit to testing and other aspects of his treatment plan.

This is a tough one to understand. Why go through the hassle of coming out of retirement, talking to the media about everything, apologizing to your teammates, enduring a four-game suspension, and backing up a rookie, only to space on a drug test (Williams is reportedly in India right now) and earn a year-long ban?

At this point, it’s clear football just isn’t very important to Ricky Williams, which is a shame since he managed to raise his stock significantly last year and was likely on his way to a featured role with someone like Denver. Then again, if Ricky’s not interested in playing football anymore, then this is the perfect excuse to retire for good this time around. Of course, there’s a chance Williams could appeal the suspension since he didn’t actually test positive, but it seems like a one-year suspension is almost inevitable at this point.