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It's time the NFL made the Prince-painkiller connection that Eugene Monroe did

Imagine if Prince had an even bigger, longer-lasting, life-altering legacy in the NFL than putting on that bad-ass Super Bowl performance in the rain?

What a rotten way to give it, though. His reported use of painkillers and the role it may have played in his sudden death this week got the attention of at least one active NFL player. Ravens tackle Eugene Monroe is, so far, the only one who has spoken (tweeted, actually) about it publicly.

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But there’s no way Monroe is alone in thinking, as he put it, “My health is at risk with every pill!