Richard Rydze, a former Pittsburgh Steelers team doctor, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after being found guilty of conspiring to illegally distribute anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and narcotic painkillers.

He was sentenced Tuesday after being convicted last May on 180 counts. Rydze was accused of distributing painkillers since 2005 and trafficking in human growth hormone and steroids since 2007. He left the Steelers in 2007.

The period in which he was accused of steroid and HGH trafficking did not overlap with his employment with the team.