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Martellus Bennett Says 'About 89 Percent' of NFL Players Smoke Weed

In an appearance on the Simms and Lefkoe podcast, recently retired tight end Martellus Bennett said that nearly all NFL players smoke marijuana.

"I want to say about 89 percent," Bennett told the hosts after being asked if more than 70 percent of players smoke weed.

"There's medical marijuana," Bennett went on to explain. "So it's like, there's times of the year where your body just hurts so bad, that you don't want to just be popping pills all the time. ... It ruins your liver. There's a lot of these anti-inflammatories that you take for so long that like, it starts to eat at your liver or kidneys and things like that.