"You get a three-year deal with Hoecht knowing his situation, same thing, played, been in the league five years, I think his was earlier and we were made aware of it. There is a thing we can get with the league, that we can find out the status. His status we knew, and we talked it through with his agents," Beane explained.
That was not the case with Ogunjobi as the former Steelers DT was notified after he and the Bills had reached a verbal agreement.
"Larry, around the time after we agreed, he got a notice that, a PED, pending suspension. So he came into my office yesterday. We did not know it when we agreed the other night, so we had a conversation," Beane said.
Beane credited Ogunjobi, who the Steelers nominated as their Walter Payton Man of the Year, for being upfront with Buffalo as soon as he received PED notice.
"I give him credit, because it's early in the process. The league doesn't even know about it, the way it's done by an independent group. He was very forthright. Larry, he was Pittsburgh's Man of the Year, like, he's a good man. He's never, he's played eight years in the league, and never had a blip. That's obviously frustrating for him and a little bit of a setback for us. But we've talked it through," Beane said.