Report: NFL won’t place Tunsil in drug program

Laremy Tunsil’s nightmare at the 2016 NFL Draft — you know, when his social media accounts were hacked and a video of Tunsil smoking out of a gas mask attached to a bong and photos of Tunsil asking a coach for money were posted — is officially over.

It turns out he’s through the worst of it. The effects of that night, which saw him drop all the way to the Dolphins at No. 13 in the draft order, won’t linger into his NFL career. As ESPN reported on Monday, the league will not place Tunsil in the substance abuse program due to that video. ESPN added, though, that the NFL will “closely monitor and support Tunsil in the event intervention is needed.”

As ESPN also pointed out, a clause in the CBA would’ve allowed the NFL to put Tunsil into the program:

“Behavior [including but not limited to an arrest or conduct related to an alleged misuse of substances of abuse occurring up to two football seasons prior to the player’s applicable scouting combine] which, in the judgment of the medical director, exhibits physical, behavioral, or psychological signs or symptoms of misuse of substances of abuse.”

That’s the clause the NFL will reportedly not be using (the NFL declined ESPN’s invitation to comment on the report). And, honestly, that’s great news for Tunsil, who endured a draft day from hell, which should’ve gained him sympathy because nobody deserves to go through what transpired Thursday night. It took extraordinary (and awful) circumstances to cause a player, …

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