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Jabrill Peppers fail drug test (diluted)


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Another one with a "diluted sample" link

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We can add a second player to the list of diluted drug test samples at the 2017 NFL Combine. Michigan safety/linebacker Jabrill Peppers was listed as having a diluted sample, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. A diluted sample is treated the same as a failed test. Reuben Fosteralso failed with a diluted sample.

Peppers’ agent offered up this statement:

"Peppers went to the combine. He was sick after flying there from San Diego. He has a history of cramping. Peppers was being pumped with fluids, drinking 8-10 bottles of water before he went to bed, because he was the first guy to work out two days for the LBs and DBs. He had to go through that first day, come back on second day, and that was the fear. So Peppers was pounding water and under the weather. He never failed a drug test in his life, nor tested positive before for any substance."

Players who fail a Combine drug test do not face a suspension upon entering the league, but they are entered into the league’s substance abuse program. That means a subsequent failure could result in a four-game suspension.

Peppers has been a tough player to peg down in this year’s draft. He is viewed as a hybrid player, having gone through both defensive back and linebacker drills. I would imagine he has already spoken with teams about this, but it is still going to be interesting to see where he lands following this news.

Since Peppers is claiming it was from drinking too many fluids, we’re likely never going to know for sure if that is true or not. But even if he had not had the diluted sample, it is possible he would still have slipped. He seems all but certain to go in the first round, but this will be one more complicating factor for teams on Thursday.

 

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Seems like he might have gotten bad advice from someone, or a bad excuse from someone. 

 Seems like you'd be better off to sit it out due to sickness than fail a drug test. That's a total guess, though. 

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If you really want to be serious about testing for drug use then use a hair sample. It goes back 12 months although it is more accurate within the past 90 days. Guessing they probably don't care what they do all of the time. Just when they are performing. The water flushing doesn't really help within the last 24 hours so that would have to be started about a week out to get it out of the system. 

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Expense is not an issue for the NFL.  They use the piss test because they don't want a more accurate, long term testing tool for these guys,they don't want anything too stringent that could affect their revenue stream with the new crop of players.  The NFL chooses to use a weak test that can be easily tampered with, and manipulated.   JMO.

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They also probably don't want to deal with the PR hit of OUR ENTIRE LEAGUE IS USING 'DRUGS' that would undoubtedly pop up if they used blood or hair samples.

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On 4/24/2017 at 3:35 PM, keesler said:

Why not do blood testing?  

The blood test is more expensive, plus one needs a med-tech to draw the blood. For the urine test all needed is a witness to see the golden flow into the bottle.

No idea if this is the reason?

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55 minutes ago, AU-24 said:

The blood test is more expensive, plus one needs a med-tech to draw the blood. For the urine test all needed is a witness to see the golden flow into the bottle.

No idea if this is the reason?

Its obviously not the reason.  You think as multi-billion dollar industry can't afford to hire a few med-techs to draw blood?

 

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Keesler is spot on with his thoughts.  An obligatory attempt at "drug" testing but they can't suspend 95% of the NFL....so find the weakest test possible.

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16 hours ago, metafour said:

Its obviously not the reason.  You think as multi-billion dollar industry can't afford to hire a few med-techs to draw blood?

 

Your genius intellect, never ceases to disappoint.

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On 4/27/2017 at 1:43 PM, AU-24 said:

Your genius intellect, never ceases to disappoint.

Your genius intellect put a comma where one should not be ??? (unless you were indicating a pause in which case a semicolon could be used)

 

J/K 24 ;) 

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7 hours ago, FoundationEagle said:

Your genius intellect put a comma where one should not be ??? (unless you were indicating a pause in which case a semicolon could be used)

 

J/K 24 ;) 

Lol ?

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