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Miami fired head athletic trainer Kevin O'Neill on Wednesday. (MiamiDolphins.com)

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The fallout from the Ted Wells report has officially cost someone in the Dolphins organization their job. Miami's head athletics trainer, Kevin O'Neill, was fired on Wednesday, the team announced. O'Neill had been with the Dolphins since 1996.

The 18-years of service apparently didn't mean much though, the Dolphins fired O'Neill in Indianapolis after flying him there for the NFL Combine, according to the Miami Herald.

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O'Neill's undoing probably had to do with the fact that he 'expressed hostility toward' the Wells investigation.

The Dolphins trainer was mentioned several times in the report. In one instance, Jonathan Martin alleged that O'Neill would sometimes laugh when other players would make jokes and crude remarks about Martin's sister. Here's an excerpt from the report:

Martin maintained that Kevin O'Neill, the Dolphins head trainer, also heard such remarks [about Martin's sister] and even laughed at them from time to time. On one occasion, according to Martin, O'Neill pulled him aside and told him he was too nice and needed to stand up for himself more.

In another instance, the report states that O'Neill would laugh when Incognito and others would hurl racial insults at an assistant trainer who was Asian-American. The report also noted that O'Neill was not cooperative with the investigation.

Martin and other players claimed O'Neill, the head trainer, not only overheard the racist insults, but also sometimes laughed along and never intervened. We did not cover this specific topic in our interview with O'Neill, which was cut short because O'Neill expressed hostility toward our investigation.

O'Neill's firing comes just eight months after he was named the recipient of the 2013 Tim Kerin Award for Excellence in Athletic Training. O'Neill was only the fifth NFL trainer to win the award, which has been handed out since 1994.

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UPDATE: NFL suspends Redskins TE Fred Davis indefinitely



Fred Davis is about as far off the radar as a pending free agent can possibly be. Following a season in which he hardly played and didn't play well when he got his chance, the Redskins announced Wednesday that Davis has been suspended indefinitely by the league. The suspension is for violating the league's substance-abuse policy. The tight end was suspended four games in 2011 for a violation of the policy.-----------------------------------Update: Davis released a statement this afternoon:"I would like to clarify the circumstances that resulted in my current suspension. In the past, I made the mistake of knowingly ingesting a banned substance. For over two years, I've worked very hard to eliminate marijuana from my life, and I have not had a positive test for it since 2011. Unfortunately, a couple of months ago I took a supplement that contained a banned substance. I now know that supplements are not regulated by the FDA and may contain banned substances. The NFL Policy is strict, and not knowing that a supplement might contain a banned substance doesn't excuse a violation of the policy. I've worked closely with the NFLPA and NFL to resolve this violation, and I will be permitted to apply for reinstatement in the fall. I look forward to staying in football shape, remaining in compliance with the NFL policy, and having a chance to get back on the field to contribute to a team's success next season."



Any team have interest in signing an indefinitely suspended player who caught 31 passes the past two seasons combined and seemed rather disinterested when on the field -- and off of it -- in 2013? No? Shocking.