Le’Veon Bell does not expect the Pittsburgh Steelers to begin the 2016 regular season without him. In fact, the star running back guarantees he’ll be on the field.
On Monday, Bell responded to an Instgram post that poked fun at him over his impending four-game suspension.
“I’m not going to miss games, trust me,” he said, per Ray Fittipaldo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Bell, whose Instagram account is private, took it a step further by vowing to beat the NFL in the appeals process.
“I’m gonna win the appeal … ppl have no idea what happened, but don’t worry .. let’em hate,” he wrote. “When I end up missin no games at all, ppl for sure gonna try to love me again and I’m only ridin with my LOYAL fans.”
Bell reportedly missed several drug tests, so many have speculated that he had something to hide. He was, of course, suspended for the first three games of the 2015 season as a result of a DUI and possession of marijuana arrest. If you remember, he made a boneheaded remark to police when he was booked in that incident.
If Bell did skip more than one drug test, it seems highly unlikely that he will win his appeal.
