Steve Keim denies involvement in DeAndre Hopkins’ 2022 failed drug test

Former Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve Keim said that he did not set up receiver DeAndre Hopkins with a faulty drug test in 2022, leading to the receiver’s six-game suspension.

Hopkins over the weekend posted and later deleted a comment insinuating his then-GM had something to do with a failed drug test. He did so on an Instagram post by former NFL player and creator Tony Robinson that detailed Keim’s connection to a company that allegedly scammed investors.

“I got set up when I played for his team and lost 13 million,” Hopkins wrote on the post. “Skeme Slime was my GM, contaminated drug test go figure how that happened.”

Keim on Tuesday night called Hopkins’ post “completely false.”

“I did not contaminate, alter, manipulate, interfere with or cause anyone else to interfere with DeAndre’s drug test or its results,” part of the statement with his lawyer read. “Accusing someone of deliberately interfering with an NFL drug test is an extraordinarily serious allegation. It attacks my integrity, my professional reputation and the work I spent decades building in the National Football League.

“I have no intention of engaging in a public back-and-forth or litigating this issue on social media,” he added in the caption. “But I also will not remain silent when I am falsely accused of conduct that I did not commit. DeAndre’s accusation concerning my involvement in his drug test is false. I unequivocally deny it.”

 

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Keim was named in a Barron’s story published July 15 that focused on NFL players being scammed by e-commerce site Dailyprodtrend. It was set up by a man named Mohamed Coulibaly, who was found dead in a swimming pool last Friday. A police investigation is underway.

Keim promoted the site and worked with Coulibaly but was not found to be involved with the fraud scheme. He told ESPN he was victimized by the scam as well.

Keim, who was in attendance for Larry Fitzgerald’s Pro Football Hall of Fame induction this weekend, served as Arizona’s GM from 2013-2022.

Tyler Drake contributed to this story.

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