NFL star Jeremy Kerley raises eyebrows with failed drugs test explanation: ‘Maybe a ghost did it’

The New York Jets wide receiver had a rather unconventional answer when asked how a performance-enhancing drug had entered his system earlier this season

The Jets wide receiver has an interesting explanation for his failed test (Getty)

An American football player has blamed his recent failed drugs test on mysterious supernatural forces, replying “a ghost may have done it” when asked how a banned substance entered his system.

New York Jets wide receiver Jeremy Kerley was suspended on November 6 after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs and was handed a four-game suspension.

When he was suspended, Kerley released a strongly-worded statement claiming that he did not knowingly take a banned substance, pledging to “figure out what caused the positive test” in an attempt to clear his name.

However when speaking to reporters for the first-time since his suspension, he raised eyebrows by suggesting the Ghost of Christmas Past had something to do with the failed test.

“I don’t know,” Kerley said when asked about what had caused him to have a banned substance in his system. “There’s a lot of ghosts around here. Ghost put it in there. You know, the ghost of Christmas past? … I don’t know.”

Kerley also admitted that he had failed to find the time to analyse his results, despite pledging to conduct his own private investigation into the failed substance when the news of his suspension first broke.

Legal note: There is no suggestion this particular ghost is to blame for the failed test (Getty)

“I didn't have time to investigate it,” Kerley admitted. “It is what it is. We're back now.”

He later added: “If I knew exactly what (the substance) was, I probably would have known the consequences behind it, so I probably wouldn't have took it. But it's in the wind now.

“It's in the past. Learn from it and move on.”