Many people were surprised that Aaron Hernandez, whom the Patriots chose in the 4th round of the NFL draft Saturday, dropped so far. That was until today when it was announced that according to sources with 3 NFL teams, the Florida products free fall was because of multiple failed drug tests for marijuana while in college. They also stated that Hernandez was very open about it, and admitted his wrong doings. Obviously, I hope that he doesn't pull this shit while on the Patriots, but my guess is that they will keep an eye on him and everything will be fine.
Yet, apparently this isn't the only person with this "problem"....
"One unnamed NFL coach estimated that “one-third’’ of players on his draft board had some sort of history with marijuana use that required “an extra level of evaluation’’ as part of the scouting process (Boston.com)."
I got nothing against weed, but when you know it can cost you millions, how dumb do you have to be to risk it? These guys have the rest of their lives to smoke weed, why now? I mean all you got to do when you got talent like this is to lay off the stuff, and they would have been a higher draft pick. Now you got guys like Hernandez falling to the 4th round. He is a 2nd round talent (according to a lot of scouts), so how much do you think that cost him?
In the end, these players have to be smarter and really look at how much they are hurting their wallets for no other reason then to smoke pot??? Come on man.
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