Once again, the NFL’s PED testing policy failed to catch a deliberate scammer. Cardinals Recipient’s “brand manager” DeAndre Hopkins issued the frivolous name management statement indicating that, like almost every other player suspended due to a PED breach, Hopkins did not intentionally receive a PED. “DeAndre and everyone who works with him are completely shocked by this finding because he is extremely diligent in what he puts into his body,” Doug Sanders said in a test message that was copied, pasted and posted on Twitter by Adam Schefter. ESPN. The text from Saunders insists that Hopkins “is committed to proving that he was not aware of a banned substance” and that “they are currently testing every product he has used to understand how this could happen.” Defending the “sharp complement” is almost unusual. But the NFL and NFL have an approved list of supplements to avoid such misfortunes. Players who wish to abstain from the possibility of using spiky supplements can receive supplements from the approved list. Any PED-positive player can claim to have gotten it by mistake. It is one of the hidden benefits of the strict liability rule for the presence of PED in a test result. It does not matter if you got it wrong, then a player can always say that he did it. With very few exceptions, they almost always do. This does not mean that any of them are lying. If everyone is telling the truth, it means that there are many types of people who deliberately take PEDs and never get them.
