So They Should Have Drafted Sammy Watkins After All?
By The NFL — always looking out for the health of its players!
According to an ESPN report, Browns receiver Josh Gordon is facing a season-long NFL ban for a drug test that came up positive for marijuana.
It’s Gordon’s second failed test. (The first was announced last summer—Gordon claimed it was codeine from his cough medicine—and he served a two-game suspension.)
How the league gets to 16 games from two failed tests is anyone’s guess. We dove into this a bit last year, but the NFL’s drug policy is secretive and impenetrable, and covers much more than just failed tests.
Gordon knew the rules and so it was dumb for him to smoke pot, but…can anyone make a case for the NFL testing its players for it? With PEDs I can at least understand the argument, but marijuana — why should that be tested for at all?
It’s also a bad break for Browns fans, since in a transformation from its epically bad 1st round two years ago the Browns are showing distinct signs of competence. Manziel isn’t a lock like Andrew Luck or anything, but certainly getting him for Trent Richardson and a 3rd rounder is a massive win. But it would obviously help if their best skill player didn’t miss the entire year.