Steelers team physician Dr. Anthony Yates is prominently mentioned in a lawsuit brought by former NFL players who are suing the league’s 32 teams and alleging they ignored federal drug laws and prescribed an inordinate amount of addictive painkillers.
According to court documents obtained and published by the Washington Post and Deadspin.com, Yates was a member of a league-funded task force to study the use of Toradol, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is popular in the league. Yates testified he witnessed players lining up for the “T-Train” — injections of Toradol before games — something that had been occurring with the Steelers for at least the previous 15 years.