NFL denies it deliberately targeted anthem protester Eric Reid with drug tests

• League issues joint statement with NFL Players Association
• Reid says he was tested six times in 11-week period

The NFL and the NFL Players Association have denied that Eric Reid, the first player to kneel alongside Colin Kaepernick, was deliberately targeted for the league’s drug testing program.

Excluding the mandatory test when he signed for his team, the Carolina Panthers, Reid says he was given a drugs test six times in one 11-week period this season. “That has to be statistically impossible,” Reid told reporters after a game against the New Orleans Saints in December. “I’m not a mathematician, but there’s no way that’s random.”

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