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McCarthy on Jolly: Johnny’s off to a good start

April 29, 2013 By Bill Scott

It would appear more and more that the Green Bay Packers are going to give Johnny Jolly a chance

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Johnny Jolly

to make their football team this season.

Packers head coach Mike McCarthy said this weekend that Jolly has been in Green Bay but is still working through some matters relating to his three-year suspension from the NFL for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy.

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The 30-year-old Jolly served six months of a six-year term in jail for violating probation following multiple arrests for felony codeine possession.  He was reinstated by the NFL in February and placed on 10-years shock probation.

Jolly hasn’t played in the NFL since 2009 and has missed three full seasons.  He’s scheduled to make $715,000 this season after the Packers reduced his salary from $2.5-million.

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Jolly applies for reinstatement

June 19, 2012 By Bill Scott

Former Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Johnny Jolly has applied for reinstatement to the NFL and is hoping to prove he is a

Johnny Jolly

changed man.

Jolly hasn’t played in the NFL since 2009.  He’s spent six months in jail for possession of the drug codeine.  He’s on probation for the next 10 years.

Jolly told “The National Football Post”, to stay clean, he is taking “Regular Drug Tests” and attending “extensive meetings.”  Details of that story appeared today in JSOnline.com.

Jolly would love to get a second chance with the Packers.  From 2007 to 2009, he had 74 tackles, two sacks and he batted down 16 passes.

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