For those of you confused by the fact that Texans linebacker Brian Cushing tested positive in September for a substance reportedly used after a steroids cycle to ensure that there’s no shrinkage in certain area, here’s a fact that we recently remembered without any external prompting (for a change).
Cushing suffered a knee injury in early August. He went hyperbaric to speed the healing process, which initially was expected to take 10 days but ended up taking longer.
So is it possible that Cushing, who had already taken an annual preseason drug test and thereafter was subject only to random testing, opted to take a chance with a steroid in the hopes of getting back to 100 percent more quickly? Under this theory, Cushing would have been chasing the steroid with hGC in September, after his knee had healed.
If we had him strapped to a lie detector, this is the line of questioning that we’d be exploring, thoroughly.