Harvin Will Have to Attend 2010 Rookie Symposium

Since Minnesota Vikings first-round wide receiver Percy Harvin was sent home from the 2009 NFL Rookie Symposium with an illness--the second illness that prevented him from attending a mandatory off-season event since being drafted--he'll have to repeat the rookie symposium next season, reports Steve Wyche of NFL.com. [via Judd Zulgad of the Star Tribune]

"Steve Wyche, reporting for “NFL Total Access” from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., said Harvin wanted to return to the symposium Tuesday but that doctors told him to remain at home. Wyche said Harvin is concerned about how people will perceive his absence because of the question marks that surrounded his character entering the NFL draft in April.

Harvin had top-10 talent but dropped to the Vikings with the 22nd-overall pick in part because he reportedly tested positive for marijuana at the NFL Scouting Combine in February in Indianapolis.

This is not the first time Harvin has dealt with an illness this offseason that has kept him from an NFL-related event. Harvin missed a Vikings rookie camp in early May after becoming so ill during a layover in Atlanta that he was hospitalized. Harvin, who had been traveling from Florida, was suffering from extreme dehydration and a virus. He returned home two days after being admitted to the hospital."