Jets’ Bell rips NFL for fifth ‘random’ test

FLORHAM PARK, N.J.— Le’Veon Bell is throwing a flag on the NFL’s drug testing policy.

The New York Jets running back says Wednesday is upset he has been randomly selected five times this season by the league to take tests for performance-enhancing drugs.

“I done had 5 ‘random’ HGH blood test in 10 weeks,” Bell tweeted. “(at)NFL I’m not doing another after today, whatever y’all lookin for it obviously ain’t there.”

Bell doubled down on his Twitter comment after practice, saying it’s “getting weird” and reiterating that he will not take additional tests this season — although he stopped short of saying the league is “targeting” him with the testing.

“I’m not going to say all that,” Bell said in the locker room. “I’m just saying I’m not doing it no more. They’re not getting no more of my blood. They can use the blood they’ve got right now.”

The random drug testing is part of a collectively bargained policy between the NFL and

NFL Players Association. An independent administrator determines via a computer program which players are tested each week.

“Is it random, though?” Bell said. “Why do I feel like every time they’re here doing the HGH testing, I get picked?”

Per NFL rules, players with no previous violations of the policy on performance enhancers won’t be tested more than six times in a calendar year.

“We’ve been playing the season for 10 weeks and I’ve been tested five times for HGH,” Bell said. “On average, it’s like once every two weeks, right? Every two weeks, you all been testing me and haven’t found nothing, so what are y’all looking for?

“I just don’t understand.” If Bell does get randomly selected for a sixth test over the last five weeks of the season and he refuses to take it, the league could consider it a failed test and choose to discipline him — with suspension a possibility.

“If we have to cross that bridge, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there,” Bell said.