Top CB Prospect Admits Pot Use

Aqib Talib was considered by many to be the No. 2 cornerback in this year's draft.

I say was because Pro Football Weekly is reporting that Talib told teams at the NFL combine that he tested positive for marijuana three different times while he was playing as Kansas. In one of the cases, Talib told coach Mark Mangini that he would test positive even before the coach got the results back.

According to PFW's Nolan Nawrocki, several teams have taken Talib completely off their draft boards.

"There is no way I'd touch (Talib)," one team told PFW. "He's gotten into a lot of trouble, and he still does not get it."

"He's got a laundry list of issues," another team executive said of Talib's off-the-field behavior. "He's not a one-time offender. Give a guy like him money, and it never gets better. It only gets worse."

What will work against Talib is that this is a relatively deep crop of first/second-round cornerbacks, with little to choose between them. With several other comparable cornerbacks to choose from, Talib might slide into the second round. A similar situation happened last year with cornerback Eric Wright, a first-round talent who fell to the Browns in the second-round because of his pot problems in college. Wright played well in his rookie year and will likely start for the Browns this season.