In December, the Colts placed right tackle Braden Smith on the non-football illness list. There was no mention of the nature of the illness. Smith has now gone public with his condition. Joel A. Erickson of the Indianapolis Star has the story.

Indianapolis Colts right tackle Braden Smith says he missed the final five games last season because of an obsessive-compulsive disorder that was so severe he spent 48 days in a treatment facility and even contemplated suicide.

The Colts' Braden Smith told the Indianapolis Star he has a type of OCD that prompted him to spend 48 days in a treatment facility last year and to ultimately turn a psychedelic drug that he believes helped save him.