Former New England Patriots tight end Christian Fauria has been suspended from his WEEI radio program for five days after using a stereotyped Chinese accent to impersonate NFL agent Don Yee.

Fauria's comments came as he and his co-hosts on Ordway, Merloni and Fauria were discussing Boston Herald columnist Ron Borges' recent scoop-that-wasn't.

Borges, citing anonymous sources, reported that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady would refuse to participate in off-season team activities if he did not get a contract matching the one given to his former backup Jimmy Garoppolo.

But the story was false and had been fed to Borges by a prankster pretending to be Yee, Brady and Garoppolo's agent. The prankster sent a text message chain between him and Borges to WEEI's Kirk and Callahan, who posted it on Twitter; the Herald then pulled the report and Borges' column was suspended.

On Friday, the hosts of Fauria's WEEI show did a dramatic reading of the text messages. Fauria took the role of Yee, who was born and raised in Sacramento, Calif., and decided to use a thick caricature of a Chinese accent.

"I'm gonna be Don Yee," Fauria said before starting. "For me, I don't know why, Don Yee sounds like an Asian guy."

Fauria's cohosts laughed at the accent, and told him to stop doing it after playing a clip of Yee's actual voice. Fauria then read several texts in his normal voice, before dipping back into the stereotyped accent at the end of the segment.

"It's so much more fun that way," he said.

Audio of the exchange was posted on Deadspin, which described the segment as "a truly impressive amount of racism to pack into three and half minutes of sports radio."

Shortly after 9 p.m. on Friday, Fauria apologized on Twitter for his remarks.

"Earlier today I made a horrible attempt at humor. In a segment during the show, I impersonated agent Don Yee in an insensitive and regrettable way. I want to publicly apologize to Don and anyone in the audience who heard it," Fauria wrote. "I have also reached out to Don directly to personally apologize. I have been disciplined by WEEI management and I fully support their decision."

WEEI publicly announced Fauria's suspension later that night.

Earlier today during his show, Christian Fauria impersonated athlete agent, Don Yee in an insensitive and ill-conceived attempt at humor. We regret Christian’s commentary and we apologize to Mr. Yee and those offended by the segment. — WEEI (@WEEI) February 10, 2018

We do not support or condone Christian’s comments, and we have suspended him for five days effective immediately. — WEEI (@WEEI) February 10, 2018

Fauria is the third Boston sports media personality to be disciplined in the last two weeks for comments or coverage about Brady, after Borges' column and WEEI host Alex Reimer's description of Brady's daughter as a "pissant."