The Bizarre and Statistically Improbable Case of Eric Reid's Random Drug Testing

When the Panthers’ safety spoke out about how often he had been drug tested since signing with Carolina, we enlisted the help of a Fairfield professor to help us calculate the percent chance of being drug tested six times in 11 weeks.

CHARLOTTE — Eric Reid is posing for a photo in the locker room about a half-hour after the Panthers’ 12–9 loss to the Saints on Monday Night Football.

He’s shirtless, wearing team-issued gray shorts, standing in front of a blank wall in the threshold between the shower area and locker room. He holds his cell phone in his hand as his Twitter mentions blow up. The man holding his own phone horizontally and snapping a headshot of Reid will soon collect Reid’s urine…