What If Clay Matthews, Jr. Tested Positive For Steroids?

But unfortunately what other option do you have at this point?

If Cushing and Matthews are both positive for steroids, that is 2 out of Houston’s 3 possible choices at pick 15. Jenkins being the only other on the board is now more likely to be picked by a team needing defense, and if he’s gone who do we take with pick 15?

Wells? Oher? Reach for Smith???

Each scenario is more painful then the next.

If this story is true, and that’s a big IF considering ESPN or Yahoo didn’t report on it before NFLDraftBible (no offense to them), then I think we should take advantage of the falling stock, trade down, and wait for one of them to fall to us at a lower pick.

It seems to have no substance

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/nfl/04/02/raji/index.html

BJ Raji has tested positive for a banned substance and is going to be on the list of players who tested positive. If he falls at all, which may be a possibility, he would be a steal at #15.

I attend a college with no division 1 sports and no football team at all, and I know at least 10 – 15 people who are taking prohormones – a steroid derivative that works damn near as well for 1/5th of the sides and no needles. The best part is they can be bought over the counter at a lot of supplement shops or over the internet completely legally. My friend Joe, who is now the backup left tackle at Baylor, went from 6’5 220 in high school, to 6’6 288 in 12 months. I’m pretty sure performance enhancing drugs are ridiculously common at the collegiate football level. Here is a list of basic available prohormones.

Compare that list with NFL banned substance list

 and NCAA banned substance list

A lot of pretty powerful compounds are not explicitly stated on the banned substance list for either organization. I’m sure the availability of these compounds and the lack of explicit banning promote the use of them, because, trust me, the results are there. For me personally, on a 1 month run of Epol, which is epistane and methyldostralone, I gained 30 lbs of relatively lean mass and kept on 22. Even if it was tested for at the collegiate level, taking it during the summer and it will easily clear your system by the time you have finished your post cycle therapy.

Basically, what this means, is I am pretty sure the vast majority of collegiate football players use some kind of “performance enhancing drug”, probably something hormone related, because its so easy to get, and very likely encouraged by win now collegiate coaches.

During his rookie year, he was interviewed in the locker room by one of the local TV stations. He was shirtless, and I noted the rather girly-looking chest on the guy. The image was so weird, it stuck with me. The recent publicity of “gynecomastia” made me very suspicious that Babin had juiced himself up during the college years. We all know how he turned out.
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My guess is that if they are taking anything illegal,, their production will fall-off if they stop. There is also the risk of suspension. So I’d be against drafting anyone violating a steroid use policy.

It’s not about idealism, it’s about the fact, it’s about the lack of production when tested. Look at the vast amounts of major leaguers whose production plummetted after testing.

TT, what specifically about the site “appeared not so legit”?

and I was glad to see the results (so far) so largely opposed.

Anybody we pick will be a gamble, so lets not stack the deck against us.

We need to get a starter for the foreseeable future with that pick, or trade it.

We have needs in the offensive and defensive backfields that could use some depth at least, if there’s not an option at LB.

If this is in fact true, I would be dead set against picking Clay3 at #15. Part of his meteoric rise up the charts had to do with the perception that his frame could support another 15-25 lbs of muscle mass and give him that rare combination of size and speed. I would be concerned how sustainable his size is if he cannot continue the juice.

These jackasses in the media have to write something to justify there existence and nothing beats a good “Rumor” because you can speculated til the cows come home. I’m sure the recipients of these rumors really appreciate having there names drug through the mud and no matter the outcome this will stay with them there entire careers thanks to the sports media.
Well I heard a "Rumor" that John McClain molests housecats…don’t worry John, my source is solid; somebody told me, that somebody told them, that they heard it from another person who found out from there grandmother (she has since passed away so we can’t absolutely confirm it, but I heard she was very honest and would never fabricate a story like this) JK

Clay & Brian,
  Take solace in knowing that there is no such thing as "Bad Press" just Bad Media Folk

The Texans have been looking primarily at USC’s duo, but Connor Barwin out of Cinci might be the best pick at OLB if these guys test positive. I’ve seen some reports that ranked him higher than Matthews and Cushing before this “scandal”.