Sam Hurd was a drug kingpin that moonlighted as a professional football player.

In case you don’t know who Sam Hurd is (and that’s completely understandable), he is currently on the Chicago Bears roster as a wide receiver, but mostly plays as a special teamer. He spent five seasons in the same capacity with the Dallas Cowboys.

Hurd was arrested Thursday on federal drug charges. He met with an undercover agent in Chicago Wednesday night to negotiate a deal to purchase 5-10 kilos of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana every week. The agreement outlined that Hurd would pay $25,000 per kilogram for the coke and $450 per pound for the weed.

That’s a bargain price for both goods, especially the greenery. It must’ve been the dirtiest of schwag.

Do the math and Hurd was going to shell out more than $2 million a month on illegal drugs. Hurd was making $685,000 for his day job. You've seen Blow; he was making a hell of a lot more than that by night.



According to the crime report, Hurd was one of the top drug dealers in the Windy City. Businessmen, hookers and college kids weren’t his only clientele. Police obtained a list of NFL players who were supplied drugs by Hurd and the number was of the double-digit variety.

That got me thinking, who will be on the list if it surfaces? I’ll take a shot at the top 10 clients on Hurd’s speed dial.

10. Ricky “Sticky Icky” Williams - All of the 1,000 pounds of weed was for him.

9. Brian Cushing - He started substituting cocaine for steroids so he could still rage.

8. JaMarcus Russell - The sizzurp just wasn’t cutting it.

7. Raheem Morris - Not a player but can’t you just see this guy tooting lines with his team?

6. Bill Romanowski - This lunatic slams blow for breakfast.

5. Fred Davis/Trent Williams - This was the D.C. branch of Hurd’s nationwide operation.

4. Percy Harvin - He needed the medicinal stuff for his migraines, come on!

3. Nate Newton - Introduced Hurd to all the hookups in Big D.

2. Michael Irvin - Was one of Newton’s biggest clients, now one of Hurd’s.

1. Jerome Simpson - Above Hurd on the field, below him in the drug hierarchy.


Other than feeble attempts to make you laugh, I do some NFL pickin’ around these parts too. I already sent out two early plays for this week. They were Ravens -1 and a 6-point, 3-team teaser (+180): Cowboys -.5, Giants -.5 and Bengals PK.

Here’s my weekly segment with former MLB player and current KNBR radio host Eric Byrnes. We break NFL Week 15 betting matchups. Thanks for listening.

There won’t be a blog next week because I’m headed to the Caribbean with my loving wife. I’ll post any plays for Week 16 on my Twitter account so follow me by clicking this link. Have a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

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