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Ross Tucker of SI.com has put together an intriguing piece regarding the possibility that the pressures of the Scouting Combine and individual Pro Day workouts prompt some players to use steroids and/or HGH.
Tucker interviewed two unnamed, recently-retired players who admitted to using performance-enhancing substances while preparing for the lifting, running, jumping, etc. that goes along with the draft preparations.
Said one player, a former Division I-A star: “I hurt my shoulder during my senior season and realized that it would not be healed in time for me to train or perform to the best of my ability at the combine. I had worked too hard to let one injury negatively affect my dream. I injected HGH because a doctor I knew recommended it as the fastest way to heal from my soft-tissue injury.” READ MORE
