Stanley Tobias Wilson Sr. (born August 23, 1961) is an American former professional football running back who played for the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals.
What Bengals player didn’t show up for the Super Bowl?
Then came an announcement from the league that Bengals running back Stanley Wilson, who missed the 1985 and ’87 seasons after admitted problems with cocaine, had been banned from playing in the Super Bowl.
Twenty minutes later, his position coach, Jim Anderson, found him in the bathroom, deep in the throes of a cocaine high. The Bengals had no choice but to leave him off the roster. Wilson’s relapse was his third offense under the NFL’s drug policy, and he was banned from the league for life.
Wilson joined the Bengals via the 1983 NFL Draft in the ninth round–which, by today’s standards, would make him akin to an undrafted rookie free agent. The former Oklahoma Sooner fullback was a versatile player who could line up as a blocker or the deep back, could run well, and had good hands. Though he was always the third or fourth back on the depth chart, he contributed in a number of ways for a small handful of years.