Travis Kelce Reveals How Many NFL Players Use Marijuana

While the league throws the book at players who commit gambling offenses, it’s softened its view on cannabis lately, as well it should. And the Kansas City Chiefs tight end reckons use is more widespread than many people think.

Kelce, who was hit with a one-year suspension for smoking pot in college, recently told Vanity Fair that around 50-80 percent of players in the league use marijuana in one form or the other and are able to avoid detection as long as they stop using it by mid-July until the end of the season.

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

The league no longer takes a hard stance on marijuana but that hardly means a player won’t get punished if he tests positive.

According to NFL rules, players are only put through one cannabis test a year during a two-week window at the beginning of training camp. As long as they pass that they’re good to go. It’s actually quite sad that players from back in the day had years shaved off their careers for something the league has been taking such a light view of these last few seasons.