Eagles star AJ Brown accuses NFL’s supposedly arbitrary drug testing program of targeting him 3 TDs

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 was supposed to have a drug test this morning, huh lol,” Brown tweeted Monday after hitting six passes for 156 yards and three scores when the Eagles defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 35-13, in the Battle of Pennsylvania.

He added a reference to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, while claiming that the supposedly random drug test was not random at all.

“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 10 players from each team, chosen at random by a computer, to be screened for performance-enhancing drugs every week.

“I was supposed to have a drug test this morning, huh lol,” Brown tweeted Monday after hitting six passes for 156 yards and three scores when the Eagles defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 35-13, in the Battle of Pennsylvania. He added a reference to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, while claiming that the supposedly random drug test was not random at all. “Rogerrrrr this is not random,” wrote Brown

The league conducts approximately 18,000 PED tests during each preseason and season, most of which are random. About 8,000 PED tests will be given to players placed in the ‘Reasonable Cause’ testing program, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Cleveland.com in 2019.

Players in the ‘Reasonable Cause’ test program previously tested positive for ‘sufficient credible evidence of steroid involvement up to two football seasons prior to his appropriate college draw or in a scouting combination’.

Of course, players have their suspicions about how random the testing is. Several have accused the league of testing players who put in strong performances.

In 2019, then-Cleveland Browns recipient Odell Beckham Jr . told Cleveland.com that he was the target of the competition.

‘[The NFL] called me in on Monday when we were having a bad day,” he said. ‘Had a drug test. I had to come Thursday after the game. Had another drug test.

“No one gets tested like I do,” Beckham continued. “I know people who haven’t been tested for five months in the off-season and I get tested every time.”

Brown’s defensive end Myles Garrett accused the league of testing him after showing his muscular arms in a couple of 2021 games.

“I’m going sleeveless TWICE and getting ‘random’ drug testing 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.’

Brown’s defensive end Myles Garrett accused the league of testing him after showing his muscular arms in a couple of 2021 games

Former San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid accused the league of testing him more after he protested with Colin Kaepernick for much of the 2016 NFL season. When Reid resurfaced with the Carolina Panthers in 2018, after he filed a complaint. filed against the league accusing owners of blackmailing him over the protests, the Pro Bowler claimed he had been tested seven times in 11 weeks.

According to Yahoo Sports math, Reid only had a 1 in 588, or 0.17 percent chance, of being selected that many times during that time, given the NFL’s testing guidelines.

“I’ve been here 11 weeks, I’ve been drug tested seven times,” Reid told reporters. ‘That shouldn’t be statistically possible. I’m not a mathematician, but that’s certainly not random.’

Through a joint investigation, the NFL and the NFL Players Association finally concluded that Reid was not unjustly targeted by the league’s performance-enhancing drug testing program.

A source with knowledge of the competition’s testing program told the Daily Mail at the time that Reid’s claim that he had been tested seven times was “false”.

“There is no evidence of targeting or any other impropriety regarding his selection for testing,” the two organizations said in a joint statement released Wednesday.

Reid was one of the first NFL players to kneel with Colin Kaepernick, teammate of the San Francisco 49ers, during the national anthem in 2016 to protest police brutality and racial injustice.