Philadelphia Eagles star AJ Brown attracted some unwanted attention for his three-touchdown performance on Sunday in the form of a Monday morning drug test.
‘I would have a drug test this morning huh lol,’ Brown tweeted Monday after catching six passes for 156 yards and three scores as the Eagles beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 35-13, in the battle of Pennsylvania.
He added a reference to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell while alleging that the supposedly random drug test was not random whatsoever.
‘Rogerrrrr this is not random,’ Brown wrote.
A league spokesperson did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
The NFL drug-testing policy requires that 10 players from each team, chosen at random by a computer, will be screened for performance-enhancing drugs each week.
Philadelphia Eagles star AJ Brown attracted some unwanted attention for his three-touchdown performance on Sunday in the form of a Monday morning drug test
‘I would have a drug test this morning huh lol,’ Brown tweeted Monday after catching six passes for 156 yards and three scores as the Eagles beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 35-13, in the battle of Pennsylvania. He added a reference to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell while alleging that the supposedly random drug test was not random whatsoever. ‘Rogerrrrr this is not random,’ Brown wrote
The league conducts roughly 18,000 PED tests during each preseason and season, most of which are random. Roughly 8,000 or so PED tests are given to players who are placed in the ‘Reasonable Cause’ testing program, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told Cleveland.com in 2019.
Players in the ‘Reasonable Cause’ testing program either tested positive previously or there was ‘sufficient credible evidence of steroid involvement up to two football seasons prior to his applicable college draft or at a scouting combine.’
Naturally, players have their suspicions about just how random the testing is. Several have accused the league of testing players who are coming off strong performances.
In 2019, then-Cleveland Browns receiver Odell Beckham Jr. told Cleveland.com that he was being targeted by the league.
‘[The NFL] made me come in Monday when we had an off day,’ he said. ‘Had a drug test. Made me come in Thursday after the game. Had another drug test.
‘Nobody is getting tested like me,’ Beckham continued. ‘I know people who didn’t get tested for five months in the offseason and I’m getting tested every time.’
Browns defensive end Myles Garrett accused the league of testing him after showing off his muscular arms in a pair of 2021 games.
‘I went sleeveless TWO TIMES and got ‘randomly’ drug tested BOTH times,’ Garrett tweeted last October. I’d try 3 for 3 but they can miss me with the blood draw not the vibe. #SleevelessMyles is retired.’
Browns defensive end Myles Garrett accused the league of testing him after showing off his muscular arms in a pair of 2021 games.
Former San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid accused the league of testing him more after he protested alongside Colin Kaepernick for much of the 2016 NFL season. When Reid resurfaced with the Carolina Panthers in 2018, after filing a grievance against the league accusing owners of blackballing him over the protests, the Pro Bowler claimed he was tested seven times in 11 weeks.
According to Yahoo Sports’ math, Reid had just a 1-in-588 chance, or 0.17 percent probability, of being selected that often over that amount of time, given the NFL’s testing guidelines.
‘I’ve been here 11 weeks, I’ve been drug-tested seven times,’ Reid told reporters. ‘That has to be statistically impossible. I’m not a mathematician, but there’s no way that’s random.’
Through a joint investigation, the NFL and the NFL Players Association ultimately concluded Reid was not unfairly targeted by the league’s performance-enhancing drug testing program.
A source with knowledge of the league’s testing program told the Daily Mail at the time that Reid’s claim that he was tested seven times was ‘not accurate.’
‘There is no evidence of targeting or any other impropriety with respect to his selection for testing,’ the two organizations said in a joint statement released Wednesday.
Reid was one of the first NFL players to join then-San Francisco 49ers teammate Colin Kaepernick in kneeling during the national anthem in 2016 to protest police brutality and racial injustice.
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