NFL players getting blitzed in offseason

The National Football League relaxed marijuana rules and players are now lighting up en masse, according to an exclusive interview in Vanity Fair. 

The 33-year-old Kansas City Chiefs tight end and two-time Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce, who was once suspended for an entire season for smoking marijuana at the University of Cincinnati, told the magazine that the league’s recently adjusted drug testing policy has made it easier for players to continue the habit most of the year.

He estimated 50% to 80% of players partake.

“If you just stop in the middle of July, you’re fine,” he told Vanity Fair. “A lot of guys stop a week before and they still pass because everybody’s working out in the heat and sweating their tail off. Nobody’s really getting hit for it anymore.”

In 2021, the NFL announced it was reworking its drug testing policy to refrain from testing players for THC during the offseason.