Jets linebacker Pierre-Louis hit with 1-game suspension

Another Jet will not be eligible for the first week of the 2018 season.

Linebacker Kevin Pierre-Louis has been suspended for the first game of the regular season, the Daily News confirmed Saturday.

A statement from the Jets said PierreLouis is being suspended without pay for violating the NFL’s Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse.

Pierre-Louis (photo) ran into trouble with the law in January as a member of the Chiefs. He was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after a traffic stop, as well as for driving without a valid license and failure to display a valid plate or current registration. He pled not guilty to the charges and eventually reached a plea deal.

The 26-year-old LB will miss the regular season opener against the Detroit Lions, and will become eligible on September 11. Though he is not barred from participating in preseason workouts or games, Pierre-Louis has missed much of camp due to an undisclosed injury.

The Jets signed Pierre-Louis to a twoyear, $6 million deal in the offseason despite his off-the-field trouble. Three other Jets players have had recent run-ins with the law, including CB Rashard Robinson, WR Robby Anderson and fellow LB Dylan Donahue.

Robinson has already been suspended four games for violating the league’s substance abuse program following a December arrest that included possession of edible marijuana. Wide receiver ArDarius Stewart was suspended two games for testing positive for a masking agent.

That makes three Jets players banned to start the season, and the possibility of Anderson, Donahue and tight end Chris Herndon, who has impressed at camp, missing time as well.

An NFL spokesman told the Daily News previously that the league is still reviewing the cases of those three. Herndon, a rookie who was drafted by the Jets in the fourth round this year, was arrested with a DWI in New Jersey in July. He crashed his car and registered a .14 bloodalcohol level on a sobriety test, almost twice the legal limit.

“That’s not who I am,” Herndon said at the time.