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Former NFL wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham arrested again
Posted by Michael David Smith
Dorial Green-Beckham, a wide receiver whose off-field troubles always overshadowed his incredible talent, has been arrested again.
The Greene County, Missouri, Sheriff’s Office says that Green-Beckham was arrested for possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana, and for resisting/interfering with an arrest. He was booked at 3:18 a.m. today.
The 25-year-old Green-Beckham is a supremely talented 6-foot-5, 237-pound wide receiver who was considered one of the best high school football players in the country, as well as winning Missouri state championships in the 100 meters and triple jump. He then went to Missouri and showed great talent as a true freshman and as a sophomore, but he was kicked off the team after two marijuana-related arrests and an accusation that he pushed a woman down a flight of stairs, although he never faced any criminal charges for that incident.
Green-Beckham transferred to Oklahoma but never played for the Sooners. Despite all the off-field issues, the Titans chose him in the second round of the 2015 NFL draft. He lasted just one season in Tennessee before he was traded to the Eagles, then he lasted just one season in Philadelphia. The Eagles cut him during the 2017 offseason and he didn’t sign on with anyone else. He was arrested for driving while intoxicated later that year.
At age 25, Green-Beckham is likely done in the NFL, as off-field problems continue to mount.
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Former Lions receiver Titus Young released from prison
Posted by Curtis Crabtree
Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Titus Young. was released from prison over the weekend on parole after serving 20 months of a four-year sentence.
According to Nathan Fenno of the
Los Angeles Times, Young
was released on Saturday from the California Health Care Facility in Stockton, Calif. He had pleaded no contest to assault charges in South Los Angeles for beating a neighbor with his fists and a metal object in January 2016.
That assault was not the only legal entanglement Young found himself in as he was self-destructing out of football. He was arrested twice in a single day in May 2013 – first for suspicion of DUI, then for trying to steal a car from an impound yard – arrested again less than a week later for burglary, assault, and resisting arrest. In all, Young accumulated over 20 criminal charges against him since 2013.
Young attributed his issues to bipolar disorder and hearing voices in diary entries he gave to the
Times.
Young was a second-round pick of the Lions in 2011 and caught 81 passes for 990 yards and 10 touchdowns in his two seasons in Detroit. The Lions released Young in January 2013 after he refused to correctly line up in a Thanksgiving day game against the Packers and later blasted the team on his Twitter account. The
St. Louis Rams claimed Young on waivers, where he stay lasted all of 10 days before being waived again. He has not played football since.