Instead of focusing mainly on the upcoming draft, the Chargers had to deal with yet another distraction. Once again, one of their players produced a positive drug test that will result in a four-game suspension.

Inside linebacker Stephen Cooper, the team's leading tackler last season in his first year as a starter, has been suspended for the first quarter of the 2008 campaign.

Cooper violated the NFL's steroids and related substance policy.

"I regret that I mistakenly took a stimulant that I did not realize at the time was banned by the NFL," Cooper, one of the club's more popular players, said through the team. "I support the NFL's anti-doping policies and understand that I must serve a suspension even though the stimulant that I took was not used before any...

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