The NFL abeyant Smith for one agenda year for actionable the league’s substance-abuse action Aug. 6, which led to the 49ers absolution him the next day.
It’s a echo breach for Smith, who was abeyant by the alliance for nine amateur endure season. He already has completed the address action and the abeyance is able immediately. He will lose $323,529 per bold while beneath suspension.
Smith larboard the Raiders’ ability Tuesday afterwards talking to reporters, acutely agitated and afraid at the ruling.
Smith, who has been arrested 5 times back 2012, will absence the endure seven amateur this division and the aboriginal nine next season, and isn’t affirmed acknowledgment into the league. He accept to administer for acknowledgment in 10 months, the alliance said. At that time, Smith, who active a one-year accord with the Raiders, would be a chargeless agent.
Smith, 25, was arrested on drunken-driving accuse Aug. 6, and pleaded not accusable in September to hit and run, bashed active and vandalism.
He active an $8 million, incentive-heavy accord with the Raiders on Sept. 11. Owner Mark Davis, accepted administrator Reggie McKenzie and arch drillmaster Jack Del Rio said again that the aggregation had done its appointment on Smith and acquainted acceptable about the situation. The Raiders were not assured a one-year suspension.
The Raiders had no animadversion Tuesday and abettor Doug Hendrickson did not anon acknowledgment calls .
Smith has played in all nine amateur with the Raiders this division and had 28 tackles and 3.5 sacks. He has said he enjoyed arena for Oakland, and was accepted with coaches and players, so the aggregation ability accept a leg up on re-signing him next year.
Third-year amateur Benson Mayowa, with one career sack, apparently will alter Smith, who had 46.5 sacks, for the Raiders (4-5).
Smith becomes the aboriginal NFL amateur to be abeyant for a abounding year back Cleveland receiver Josh Gordon was abeyant for actuality corruption in February.
Smith was abeyant for nine amateur in the 2014 division for what the alliance alleged violations of its behavior on actuality corruption and claimed conduct.
In the Aug. 6 incident, Badge said Smith collided with a anchored vehicle, again added damaged the anchored car with his car door. Smith larboard afterwards advertisement the blow or accouterment any anecdotic information, again authorities said he alternate and was contacted by officers.
Smith displayed “objective affection of getting beneath the access of an alcoholic beverage” and admiral conducted a acreage abnegation test, badge said.
Smith aswell was arrested in April 2013 at Los Angeles International Airport. He was about called for a accessory screening and became annoying with the process, cogent a TSA abettor that he had a bomb. No accuse were filed.
The 6-foot-5, 255-pounder was a first-round pick, seventh overall, by the 49ers from Missouri in the 2011 draft.
Vic Tafur is a San Francisco Chronicle agents writer. E-mail vtafur@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @VicTafur
Troubled past
Aldon Smith has been complex in about a half-dozen acknowledged incidents back the alpha of 2012:
2012
Jan. 27: Smith is arrested in Miami on DUI charges. He enters a aberration affairs for first-time offenders and the accuse are bargain to adventuresome driving.
2013
Sept. 20: Smith is arrested on suspicion of active beneath the access and marijuana control afterwards abolition his barter into a tree. He and the aggregation draw acute criticism if he plays in a bold two canicule later. A day afterwards that game, Smith checks himself into an inpatient substance-abuse rehabilitation affairs and sits out 5 weeks.
Oct. 9: Smith is arrested and answerable with three abomination counts of actionable control of an advance weapon stemming from a affair at his abode in June 2012. He pleads no challenge to three abomination weapons accuse as able-bodied as two DUI misdemeanors afterward his September arrest. On Aug. 30 of 2014, Smith is accustomed a nine-game abeyance for violations of the NFL’s substance-abuse and personal-conduct policies.
2014
April 13: Smith, who assemblage say appeared to accept been drinking, is arrested for allegedly authoritative a apocryphal bomb blackmail at Los Angeles International Airport. No accuse are filed.
2015
Aug. 6: Smith is arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run, DUI and vandalism. Less than 15 hours later, Smith is appear by the 49ers.
Sept. 11: Smith signs with the Raiders.
Nov. 17: NFL suspends Smith for a year.
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