ASHBURN, Va. — The season is over for Redskins running back Clinton Portis. Now he’s left to contemplate where he might play next — and whether he will play again.
Portis was in a reflective mood Tuesday after the Redskins placed him on injured reserve. Doctors have yet to clear him from a concussion he suffered a month ago, and he sounded like a player with a very opened-ended future.
“I think I’ll get well,” Portis said. “I have to put the time into rehabbing and continuing to do what the doctors say, but at the same time, to have the opportunity to play for eight years and play and compete and not miss many games . . . If it’s my time and I look back today, I think I had a great career. No one wants to finish on an injury, but at the same time I enjoyed it and I would love to come back.”
Portis, 28, was hurt in a helmet-to-helmet hit against Atlanta on Nov. 8 and since struggled with vision problems and dizziness. His season ends with a career-low 494 yards rushing on 124 carries and one touchdown.
• Shaun Suisham, the most accurate kicker in franchise history, was cut by the Redskins, who replaced him with Graham Gano from the United Football League.
Suisham made his first 13 field-goal attempts this season, but he had misses from 39 and 50 yards in a 7-6 loss to Dallas three games ago and was wide right Sunday on a 23-yarder that would have sealed a victory over the unbeaten Saints.
Suisham made 18-of-21 attempts this season and 81-of-101 since joining the Redskins in 2006.
Gano kicked the winning field goal in overtime for the Las Vegas Locomotives in the first UFL title game last month. He is from Florida State and spent training camp with the Ravens.
Ochocinco fined $30K.
Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco is being fined $30,000 for his latest stunt — donning a poncho and a sombrero after scoring in Sunday’s 23-13 victory over the Lions.
On his Twitter account, Ochocinco posted: “Dear NFL League Office . . . being great means having fun n celebrating. I’ve written a letter of apology to yall.”
This fine comes about a month after Ochocinco was docked $20,000 and reprimanded by the NFL for pretending to bribe an official with a dollar.
Footnotes.
The Giants signed defensive back London Fryar — son of former NFL standout Irving Fryar — to their practice squad.
• Tampa Bay kick returner Clifton Smith will miss the rest of the season after his second concussion in less than two months.
• The Packers placed linebacker Aaron Kampman on injured reserve because of a knee injury and signed Cyril Obiozor from the practice squad. The Associated Press
