Warren Sapp Redux?
April 8th, 2009Former Bucs beat writer and current SI.com columnist Don Banks wrote a story Tuesday claiming stud Boston College defensive tackle B.J. RajiĀ tested positive for drugs at this year’s combine.
Banks went on to write that NFL scouts were made aware that Raji had tested positive for weed while at Boston College.
Since, the article was removed by SI.com. But through the magic of Google, Joe has a cache copy.
Defensive tackle B.J. Raji, whose draft stock has soared over the past six months, had a positive drug test at February’s combine, NFL team sources have told SI.com. It’s unknown to SI.com which drug triggered the positive result, but NFL scouts were made aware before the 2008 season that Raji had tested positive for marijuana during his time at Boston College.
NFL teams will receive the official list of those who tested positive in Indianapolis later this month, and Raji’s name will be on it, according to a source who attended last week’s owners meetings in California.
Banks later in the article invokes Warren Sapp. In the 1995 draft rumors began to swirl amid NFL circles that Sapp tested positive for a herb known to be of the seven-leaf variety. As a result, Sapp’s draft stock plummeted and he fell in the Bucs’ lap.
The Bucs sorely need a defensive tackle and Joe is really crossing his fingers teams forget what happened with Sapp and are so paranoid that Raji falls the the No. 19 slot, or falls enough that the Bucs can trade up to complete the steal.