Dirty Urine from Combine

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Reports and Rumors Surface of Many Positive NFL Combine Drug Tests

Yesterday, SI.com reported that former Boston College defensive tackle B.J. Raji had failed a drug test at the NFL Combine. The SI.com report does not confirm which drug Raji tested positive for; however, he tested positive for marijuana before his 2008 season at Boston College. Raji also missed the entire 2007 season for Boston College because of academic issues.

BJ Raji is a behemoth in the trenches who ran the 40 yard dash around 5.1 at the Combine in February. His draft stock has recently been trending upward as the focus shifts more to his physical abilities and football talent (8 sacks as a senior), and away from his off-field troubles. This new report certainly throws a wrench in that trend.

Each NFL team receives a list of which Combine participants fail the mandatory Combine drug tests later in April. Any player who tests positive for “street drugs” is then subject to the NFL’s drug program and must submit to random testing. If this report is true, and there is no reason to doubt it, then obviously someone wanted this information to be made public, and to be made so before the official list is delivered to NFL teams.

And this morning, new reports have surfaced that B.J. Raji was not the only player to fail a drug test at the combine; far from it, in fact, if the website NFL Draft Bible is to be believed. As of right now, I have no reason to believe nor disbelieve them. My own eye test on their site tells me this is not some fly-by-night operation, and they certainly have a wealth of draft information. I’ll wait for the facts to make a judgment, but hereRumors of Failed Drug Tests for Raji, Davis, Matthews, Cushing, Harvin are the reports/rumors from NFL Draft Bible:

* NFL Draft Bible Report: LB Brian Cushing and LB Clay Matthews tested positive for steroids at the NFL Combine.
* NFL Draft Bible Report: CB Vontae Davis and WR Percy Harvin tested positive for marijuana at the Combine, in addition to DT B.J. Raji. and UTEP K Jose Martinez.

Please go ahead and click through the the reports at the NFL Draft Bible site, because they are original reporters of the rumors. However, you won’t get much more info than what I just posted, other than their claim that the reports were confirmed by “one NFL team”. Literally, each of the posts is one line long. I assume that there will be more info coming.

If these rumors prove true, this would undoubtedly be the biggest NFL Draft drug scandal we’ve ever seen.

For the record, this morning is my first time ever visiting NFL Draft Bible, which I found through a story on the rumors of positive Combine drugs tests at ProFootballTalk. Allow me to echo Mike Florio’s comments:

In mentioning the NFLDraftBible.com reports, we’re not taking a position as to whether the information is true or false. But since the site previously was run by John Murphy, a long-time Internet scribe who now serves as G.M. of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, we think the operation is sufficiently legit to justify at least mentioning the substance of these reports, without taking a position as to whether the information is true or false.


I agree with that sentiment wholeheartedly, and will withhold outright judgment until we hear more facts. However, as a general statement, when these reports surface usually where there is smoke there is fire. So as it stands right now, and this is sad to say, I would be more surprised if the rumors and reports end up debunked than if they prove to be true. I hope they are wrong, and that I’ve wasted my time writing this post; but we’ll see.

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