DENVER — Broncos outside linebacker Jonathon Cooper will be back in court Monday in ongoing legal action stemming from two domestic violence arrests.

Cooper, 28, has a newly scheduled motions hearing at 3 p.m. Monday in Douglas County Court. He is facing a felony assault charge and other lesser charges stemming from altercations with a former girlfriend that led to the arrests in June. Cooper pleaded not guilty to all charges in August and is currently set to stand trial in the middle of November.

Cooper is on the NFL commissioner’s exempt list, which is essentially like paid administrative leave. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell placed Cooper on that list so that he could not play while the NFL continues to look into potential violations of the league’s personal conduct policy.

While on the list, Cooper cannot play or practice but he can be around the team’s facility, work out and attend meetings.

If the league ultimately concludes that Cooper has violated the personal conduct policy, he will likely face a suspension. Cooper has already missed four and the Broncos play twice more in the next six days — Sunday at the Los Angeles Chargers and then Thursday night at Seattle. A suspension would count the games missed on the exempt list as, essentially, time already served, but Cooper would have to pay back the game checks he received because suspensions levied by the NFL are without pay.

It was not immediately clear if the motions hearing may lead to a resolution in Cooper’s case, but it is common practice for attorneys on both sides of a criminal proceeding to communicate regularly, including about potential avenues to resolution.

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