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Michigan State Spartans (official thread)

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Jaxbuck said:
assuming he killed himself then?

(38 year old elite athletes don't drop dead of natural causes all that often being my logic behind the question)
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The Lions selected Rogers with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2003 draft, but his career never took off as he admittedly struggled with drug issues. The 6-foot-3, 220-pounder had just 36 catches for 440 yards with four TD in 15 games before he left the league.
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Gonna guess his drug use caught up to him or he OD'd.
 
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NFBuck said:
Sad. He will always be a poster child for a gifted player that totally wasted his talent.
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Wasn't it injuries that caused him to go down that path?
To me, this is significantly different then Josh Gordon or Justin Blackman.

If memory serves me right, he had a solid to great first NFL game, then broke an arm or Collarbone the very next.
 
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malibuspeedrace said:
Wasn't it injuries that caused him to go down that path?
To me, this is significantly different then Josh Gordon or Justin Blackman.

If memory serves me right, he had a solid to great first NFL game, then broke an arm or Collarbone the very next.
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briegg said:
Broke his collarbone twice and got hooked on pain meds. So sad.
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Yea a story with a lot of parallels in US pillcare right now =/
I read about some of it for awhile... i guess he was working as an auto mechanic before liver cancer diagnosis.
Crazy what opiods will due to millions of dollars in the bank.
 
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malibuspeedrace said:
Wasn't it injuries that caused him to go down that path?
To me, this is significantly different then Josh Gordon or Justin Blackman.

If memory serves me right, he had a solid to great first NFL game, then broke an arm or Collarbone the very next.
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Yep.. Big difference between smoking ganja and eating Percocet like they're TicTacs.

Percy Harvin recently said that he never played a game where he wasn't high on weed.
 
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