Going straight seems to have been a problem for Tyrann Mathieu in the past. He got kicked off the LSU football team for repeatedly failing the standard drug tests issued by the team to all players. Surely LSU Head Coach Les Miles did not want to lose his top rated defensive player… not to mention punt returner.
Then, just a few months later, he gets busted in his off campus apartment… once again for marijuana. That was apparently another serious blow to Mathieu’s potential career playing professional football and becoming the first millionaire in his neighborhood down in New Orleans.
The kid obviously is a talented athlete and seems to have a winning personality as well. Fellow Tiger teammates called him a “team leader” even though Tyrann was only in his sophomore year at LSU. One has only to review the clips that have been posted to watch Mathieu in action. He was very impressive on the gridiron in 2011.
Perhaps he had some extracurricular guidance during the past year or maybe he just got out his calculator and figured out just how much each joint was costing him. The number was probably astounding. Whatever, it looks like something has made an impression on the young man from Tigerland. He has gone straight.
Tyrann Matheiu now says that his number one goal is to play football in the NFL land that he no longer considers smoking marijuana to be more fun than playing football. He told the NFL Network that he has moved beyond the issues that got him thrown out of school and is now 100% focused on being an NFL star player.
“All the things I put before football in the past, it’s not fun anymore — marijuana and everything you put before football is obsolete now,” Mathieu said.
He candidly told members of the press that he had been getting high on pot since he was 12 or 13 years old. As the country song says, “Old habits like you are hard to break.”
Coaches and trainers at the NFL Combine asked Mathieu why he got kicked out of LSU and all seemed to have been impressed at how forthright and forthcoming he was about the issue.
To his credit, Tyrann impressed the coaches and trainers at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis with his agility and quickness……and hopefully with his sincerity.
