Many had Randy Gregory as a sure fire Top 10 pick heading into the 2015 NFL Draft. There are now reports that he failed a drug test at the NFL Combine as well as failing multiple test while in college. How will this affect his draft status?
Gregory revealed the positive test to NFL Media on Wednesday afternoon in an interview at his agent’s home office in suburban Atlanta.
“I blame myself,” Gregory said. “And I know it sounds cliché, but there’s really no one else I can blame.”
Gregory officially learned of his failed test about two weeks ago, during a phone call with his father. Believing he had received a letter from the NFL inviting him to attend the draft, Gregory asked his father to open the envelope. It wasn’t a draft invitation.
“It said I failed a drug test,” he said.
Gregory said he first smoked marijuana after graduating from Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers, Ind., and before enrolling at Arizona Western Community College in 2011. He had failed to qualify academically at Purdue, which represented a considerable disappointment to him, and Gregory said he turned to marijuana to cope with the anxiety.
He sat out the 2012 season with a broken leg but was still pursued by major colleges. In 2013 he transferred to Nebraska, where he officially tested positive for marijuana twice, in January 2014 and April 2014. (Gregory said Nebraska officials told him he would be kicked off the team if he were to fail a third test.)
Gregory said he has not smoked marijuana since December, but because his THC levels were so elevated, the drug remained in his system at the combine. Thus, the positive test.
Gregory also understands the team that drafts him next month may do so while crossing its fingers. Because of his failed combine test, Gregory will come into the NFL already in Stage 1 of the league’s substance abuse program.
[NFL.com]
