Buffalo Bills safety Jordan Poyer shared on Saturday via Instagram that he's one year sober.
"A year ago today (3/13/2020) I decided to quit drinking," the 29-year-old wrote. "Not because of anything special. Like lent or a New Years resolution. But because I was an alcoholic."
Poyer said that he couldn't drink "just to hang" but that he "used alcohol to avoid all my issues in real life."
"When I drank I could forget all of my issues. I didn't have to deal with them face on."
When the Bills lost to the Texans in the AFC wild-card game during the 2019 season, Poyer said he was so disappointed about how he played and how they lost that "for the next 5 weeks, I drank every damn day.