KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Halfway through the anonymous survey, one Pro Bowl player stopped and walked away.



“Hey, man, I’m gone,” he said after practice Tuesday. “That’s a trap question.”



We went to ESPN’s Wide World of Sports complex, site of this week’s practices leading up to Sunday’s Pro Bowl in Orlando, with a quick two-minute survey for players, talking to 32 over two days, with a mix of NFC and AFC, young and old, offense and defense. We had the usual best-and-worst type of superlatives, but we also included three questions about whether, moving forward, the NFL should be testing players for marijuana.



It’s possible the league will soften its stance on the drug and whether it tests or suspends players for using it, potentially even this year as part of negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement. As marijuana is made legal in more states for both medicinal and recreational purposes,...