Rob Ninkovich sat in with Dale and Tomase on Dale & Keefe on Thursday and discussed Julian Edelman's four game suspension, which was announced right before he joined the show.
"I just found out driving in," Ninkovich said. "It's definitely unfortunate. It's something I had to deal with."
Ninkovich was also suspended for four games in 2016 when he was with the Patriots.
From his experience, Ninkovich said it's best to wait until hearing both sides of the story before jumping to any conclusions.
"In today's society we're lied to a lot … You just never know," he said. " … I feel for Jules."
"It's a situation that you want to say is preventable but as an athlete … you just never know … I would wait until a statement is said or written or hear his side of it before I'm going to jump to any conclusions."
Ninkovich also said it is easier than most people think to unknowingly take a banned substance because there are no regulations on supplements.
"You can't not take anything," he said. "You can't go work out and eat an egg and be like, 'Oh I got my protein for the day' … You could go take a vitamin that's made in a facility that they say exactly what's in it and it has something else in it."
He did say the Patriots were very supportive of him during his suspension, which was also for the first four games of the season and lasted until Oct. 3, 2016.
