Extreme measures are sometimes use by NFL players to ensure they can participate in games throughout the season.
Many Athletes, including the league's best quarterbacks, risk future injury by continuing to play in the regular season.
Green Bay packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers admitted to using the opioid Percocet while playing in the past in a recent interview with Joe Rogan.
Dov Kleiman said that Aaron Rodgers had confessed to playing games while under the influence of percocet, which the quarterback subsequently acknowledged was a terrible choice.
Now for some anecdotes from the "nonathletes" if you participate in this collision, gladiator sport,..... you most likely have anything in you system "a supporter's writing.
I don't know what to tell you if the fact that NFL players are high on painkillers during games is news to you, as another fan put it.