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If you’ve ever seen the laundry list of banned substances the NCAA puts out, you’d wonder how any player could truly not be in violation of it. Caffeine in excess of a certain amount is on that list along with a ton of other stuff that I can’t even pronounce, much less know if it’s in a supplement. The NCAA doesn’t (to my knowledge) blood test athletes which would be the only way one could fail for most of those substances. I’d assume the NFL likely has a comparable list of substances but they have the resources to test for them. The random screens given when I played football were basically like a pre-employment screening (drug urine test). I played at a small school but the larger universities likely could put their athletes on a supplemental regimen that would qualify as PED’s if the NCAA tested them for it. However you don’t hear of any players failing a test for those, just the illegal substances. The NFL is a different story and I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to fail a test even if not intentionally trying to gain an advantage.