ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Montee Ball has come forth with a reason his career with the Denver Broncos never got off the ground.
He was consuming alcohol, heavily and often.
Ball, a second-round pick by the Broncos in 2013 who had been waived by 2015, told The Sporting News this week that he got drunk four times a week during his NFL career and that he didn’t “take any of it seriously."
There had been rumors Ball had significant struggles off the field in his time in Denver -- he told TSN his heavy drinking began in 2011 when he was a junior at the University of Wisconsin.