Owens not happy with drug testing

Terrell Owens isn’t worried about being tested for drugs as many as 24 times a year now. Still, he’s frustrated.

“They can test me 1,000 times,” the Dallas Cowboys receiver said Wednesday. “I know that I don’t use illegal stuff, so I’m good.”

Owens just isn’t very happy that what he insists was a simple miscommunication landed him in the NFL’s “reasonable cause” testing program after he missed a random test.

“Especially with everything with the steroids and performance-enhancing drugs, for me to be put out there in that light, I think it’s just a negative connotation for me,” Owens said during the fourth week of the team’s voluntary off-season workouts. “It’s all because of a missed call that negative perception is out there.”

The 34-year-old Owens said he has never had a positive test “for substance of any kind” during his 12 NFL seasons.

Around the league

New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith has signed a contract extension that will make him one of the NFL’s highest-paid defensive players. Smith signed a six-year contract worth about $70 million, according to a person familiar with the deal. … Plaxico Burress isn’t going to practice with the New York Giants until the Super Bowl champions give him a new contract. Burress reported to the Giants’ mandatory minicamp but refused to work out because he wasn’t happy with the way contract negotiations are progressing between the team and agent Drew Rosenhaus. … Browns’ center LeCharles Bentley asked for and received his release from Cleveland nearly two years after he suffered a major knee injury at the start of his first training camp with the team. … Pro Bowl left tackle Jason Peters will be fined by the Buffalo Bills for missing the start of the team’s three-day mandatory minicamp.