When the 49ers open their season against the Minnesota Vikings, Victor Bolden won't be there to lend a hand. San Francisco's return man from 2017 has been suspended for the first four games of the 2018 regular season for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances, the team announced Friday. "Unknowingly, I used a supplement that was on the NFL's banned substance list," Bolden said in a statement. "As a profe sional athlete, I take full responsibility
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