Montee Ball reveals what went wrong in his time with Broncos

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."

Montee Ball now knows he squandered his NFL opportunity.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. But Ball was publicly engaging and had rushed for 559 yards as a rookie…