So Browner 's suspension is a result of a small amount of weed in his system recently. However, it's a year because he was in Stage 3 of the NFL drug program. He's only in that level because he missed NFL tests while in the CFL for 4 years. The letters for testing got sent to an old address.
There is question as is to he should even qualify to be tested at that time, given the roster status he achieved (or didn't acheive) with his cup of coffee with the Broncos in 2005.
Once you are in Stage 3 you can never get out and it's an automatic year suspension for an infraction. If he was in Stage 2 (or less) his two years of previously clear tests would have him out of the program entirely.
And he got tested over 200 times in his 27 months in the league.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer/...ers-suspension