[ESPN.com] In a move anticipated for several months, the NFL on Tuesday suspended Kansas City Chiefs starting cornerback Eric Warfield for the first four games of the 2005 season, the sanctions coming as a result of multiple DUI convictions.

The suspension will cost the Chiefs a talented cover defender, one who has started in all but one game over the last four seasons, and will cost Warfield $776,470 in base salary. That amount represents four-seventeenths of the $3.3 million base salary that Warfield was scheduled to earn in 2005.