Hold up a second guys, it may not all be true..
From nfl.com:
Latest Williams situation unfortunate
By Adam Schefter
NFL Analyst
(Feb. 20, 2006) -- While Ricky Williams is back in the headlines in the United States, the running back might not even be aware of it.
Williams currently is in India, and will be for at least the next month, taking part in the same Sivananda yoga program that helped him clean up his life at this time last year.
Williams is engaging in clean living at the same time a report surfaced accusing him of violating the NFL's substance abuse policy for a fourth time, which would lead to a one-year suspension.
Williams had seemed to be on the right track until this latest report.
Williams either missed a test or failed one, which accounted for his latest strike. The report, first aired on KDVR-TV in Denver, contradicts Williams' behavior, which is one reason that the running back's agent, Leigh Steinberg, is so exasperated.
"I'm telling you, Ricky Williams is not using drugs," Steinberg said Monday. "While no one can ever get into someone else's heart, I'm confident he's made a real turnabout in his life and is living a drug-free life. Now the hard part is that he's been re-branded because of this report."
Williams will have to fend off questions, but the Dolphins attempts to deal the running back in the next month now will be thwarted. No team will be willing to trade for a running back that is facing a year-long suspension until or if he is exonerated.
If Steinberg is correct, Williams will be. But no answer on Williams' appeal is expected anytime soon, probably not anytime within the next month.
Until a ruling on Williams' latest strike is issued, the Dolphins cannot deal their running back as they attempt to stockpile draft choices and bolster their quarterback position. Trading Williams was a distinct possibility, and still might be, but those talks now will have to be tabled.
The fact that Williams is even being shopped is likely how the information about the running back's latest offense leaked.
Teams are allowed to inquire to the NFL about the backgrounds of certain players before dealing for them.
Nick Saban felt Ricky Williams was a model player in 2005.
Add up the facts. The Broncos contacted the league, the league passed along its confidential information. Somehow, that information made its way on to a local TV station in the Broncos market. It's not real hard to connect those dots -- or at least how it looks like those dots are connected.
Now Williams' reputation is sullied, which angered Steinberg, the man left to clean up after his client.
"(Dolphins coach) Nick Saban called me after the season and said that I told him Ricky would be a coach's dream, and he was," Steinberg said. "Nick told me that Ricky was my best player, the one player I never had to worry about.
"That's why this is from outer space. Ricky Williams is not even close to being in this space anymore. He's totally different, totally clean."
Dolphins officials declined comment, citing the confidential nature of the league's substance-abuse policy.
It is the violation of that confidentiality that upset Steinberg, who once had a renowned client who tested positive, appealed the test, and was exonerated. Because his client was innocent, nobody outside the team and league found out about the offense, and Steinberg believes nobody should have learned anything about Williams, either.
Mikey