When Alex Singleton first got the results of a random drug test late last month, he didn’t know what to think.

The 31-year-old Broncos linebacker is diligent about what he puts in his body. How could he have been flagged for elevated levels of human chorionic gonadotropin — a hormone that produces progesterone?

Singleton could hardly have been prepared for the eventual answer: Testicular cancer.

Singleton was diagnosed a week ago after a visit to a urologist and subsequent ultrasound work. They’d caught the cancer early, but still needed to remove the tumor surgically as soon as possible.

Singleton, though, wanted to play in Denver’s Thursday night game against Las Vegas. So he put one of the worst words in the English language — ”Cancer’s a scary word. It still is. It freaks me out ju

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