Cowboys’ Gregory Gets 4-Game Suspension for Substance Abuse

To test positive at Indianapolis (at the National Football League combine) for drugs is an issue.

Gregory’s suspension comes for a violation of the league’s substance-abuse policy. Based on the rules of the program, Gregory will be able to work out with the Cowboys through the offseason program, minicamp, training camp and preseason games. Ian Rapoport reported that the suspension is the result of four failed tests.

Gregory admitted a year ago that he struggled with marijuana in college at Nebraska, but blamed it on bad decision-making rather than him having a problem “with weed”.

“I thought if you watch our effort throughout games, we played extremely hard”, Lee said, via Jon Machota of The Dallas Morning News. “And I know it sounds cliché, but there’s really no one else I can blame”.

The Dallas Cowboys have been known to take a gamble on talented players with troubled pasts. The Cowboys and Gregory agreed to have a personal handler with him during the season to help him cope with issues related to anxiety. Players with substance-abuse issues are either unwilling or unable to address them, and the teams treat the players like commodities instead of people, paying lip service to helping them while watching them merrily self-destruct.

The Cowboys believed in Gregory’s talent enough to make him the 60th overall pick in the 2015 draft.

Still, the Cowboys might be second guessing their risk on taking Gregory now.