One of the top linebackers in this year’s draft, Zack Baun received word he tested positive for a diluted urine sample at the Combine, Adam Schefter of ESPN.com reports (on Twitter).
The Wisconsin alum notified all 32 teams of this, blaming the positive drug test on drinking too much water in advance of his weigh-in, Schefter adds. Under the NFL’s new PED policy, Baun will not enter the NFL with a strike against him. Teams do not believe this will affect his draft status much, Schefter tweets. Baun rates as Mel Kiper Jr.’s No. 3 linebacker going into the draft.
This happened to a Big Ten defender three years ago at the Combine as well; Jabrill Peppers tested positive for a diluted sample and also blamed it on water intake. He was not suspended to begin his career and went in the first round. The Michigan product did, however, enter the NFL with a drug-related strike against him.
Baun weighed in at 238 pounds at the Combine, coming in on the slightly lighter end of the spectrum for his position. The ex-Badger broke out in 2019, registering 12.5 sacks and 19.5 tackles for loss en route to second-team All-American acclaim. He’d collected just 2.5 sacks in his college career going into last season. He is expected to go off the board in the first or second round next week.
how much water would one need to drink to trigger a diluted sample test?
Beat me to it. And why drank so much water before weighing in?
Baun is on the small side, so maybe he was trying to add weight?
Because 238 lbs. is light for a linebacker, and water is the easiest, fastest way to gain weight. Or he was worried about testing positive for something not allowed. Either one is possible.
Because he wanted to dilute his sample
If he was tested after drills I’m sure he consumed a lot of water prior to being piss tested.
Technically it’s a false positive.
No, technically it’s a dilute sample. A false positive would be sample A testing positive but sample B testing as negative.
I doubt he diluted his sample — it’s not like he played for Ohio State.
Cute
Not as cute as the women the OSU players probably take advantage of.
Probably had too much beer in his system.
Lol at all the conservative people here hinting it was a weed thing. It depends on his diet, if he’s drinking a lot of water or sports drinks predominantly containing water than he could easily have a diluted sample, also other factors like how many times he pissed that particular day before the test, etc.
Right? Most people here probably piss brown from how little actual water they drink.
Imagine the response if he was black…
He is black but what does it matter?
You are literally the first one to mention weed, most were talking about padding his weight with water weight. But ok
Lol one person mentioned weed….wait for…YOU
There must be something wrong with me because I’m not fascinated with urine like others appear to be.
We are getting close to 420!!!
Couldn’t get through the whole comment area without atleast ONE race card being played! Wow….