NFL player Roy Miller Arrested in Florida for Domestic Battery

Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Roy Miller was arrested in Florida Saturday on a domestic battery charge, jail records showed.

Miller, 30, was jailed early Saturday by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. There were no details immediately available about the alleged battery or who was involved. The records showed it involved a minor injury.

Court records show Miller has an initial appearance before a judge later Saturday. The records do not show whether he has a lawyer.

The Kansas City Chiefs released a statement regarding the incident.

“This morning we were informed about an incident involving one of our players, Roy Miller. We are still in the process of gathering details on the situation. We will have no further comment at this time,” the team said.

The NFL defensive tackle previously played for the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2013 to 2017, when he signed with the Chiefs. The 6-foot-1, 320-pound lineman was originally drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2009 out of the University of Texas.

The Chiefs have a bye week this week and will play next on Nov. 19.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

John Urschel Never Told Ravens He was An MIT full-time Ph.D. studenT while in the NFL

John Urschel made headlines this offseason when he announced his retirement from the NFL after three seasons. The former Ravens offensive lineman is well-known for being extremely smart, graduating from Penn State with a bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics with a 4.0 GPA. He's already explained his reasonings for stepping away from the game, but he went into more detail recently on the Freakonomics Podcast.

He said even though he retired following a study on CTE in NFL players, he has no hard feelings toward the league. He loved every second he played in the NFL, for the Ravens, and says he only made the decision to retire so he could focus on mathematics.

Continuing with that, he revealed he was a full-time Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While he didn't hide the fact he was taking courses at MIT, Urschel didn't tell the full story that he was studying during the football season, and not just during the offseason.

Here's a transcript from the podcast, where he's talking with host Stephen J. Dubner:

URSCHEL: Yes. For the majority of my NFL career, actually.

DUBNER: How did that work out? When did you do what, as a doctoral candidate, around the football season?

URSCHEL: Well, I was — I shouldn’t say “was.” I am a full time Ph.D. student at MIT and I was full-time the entire time, so there wasn’t really any working around to be done.

DUBNER: But, obviously during the football season you’re not attending classes. That’s not possible right? Football’s [a] very full time job.

URSCHEL: Yes, of course. This is a natural question. I guess since I’m retired, I’m allowed to say, I was full-time, full-time. For example, last fall I took courses at MIT.

DUBNER: During football season.

URSCHEL: Yes. Via correspondence. I took courses which I thought were very manageable in season; areas that I was more or less familiar with previously, classes which had a textbook, which the professor followed the textbook and I would just do the assignments and then just send them in.

DUBNER: You say that you can tell me, “Now that you’re retired.” Am I to gather, then, that you didn’t tell the Ravens that you were actually full-time at MIT during the football season?

URSCHEL: I did not tell anyone this. Well, except MIT. But I don’t think an NFL team would be extremely happy to hear that I’m working towards my Ph.D. also in the fall.

DUBNER: How did a standard day work out?

URSCHEL: My schedule — to put the MIT things in perspective — what I would do is, I would play the game on Sunday. Then from Sunday — suppose it’s a home game, one o’clock kickoff. I get home around 5:00, perhaps 5:30. From Sunday, 5:30 p.m. until Tuesday, say, 11:00 a.m. — when I have to go into the Ravens — all I am doing is MIT coursework and math. That is all I am doing. MIT accepted me as a Ph.D. student, but they don’t have part-time Ph.D. students. If I have to finish in four years, maybe five, this is just completely infeasible if I’m only working on the Ph.D. half a year.

DUBNER: During football season.

Most NFL players struggle with the insane schedule of a professional athlete, but Urschel was somehow able to fit in being a full-time Ph.D. student at one of the most prestigious universities in the country. It's also understandable why he hid that information from the Ravens. The team may have told him to stop taking classes, and focus on game film and opponent strategy instead.

Thankfully the situation worked out well for everyone, as Urschel can now put all of his attention on his education at MIT.

Giants owner Reveals That Colin Kaepernick will be on NFL roster for this season

Fans of Colin Kaepernick should be comforted by the words of New York Giants co-owner John Mara.

Mara was a guest on “The Michael Kay Show” on ESPN New York’s 98.7 Tuesday and was asked about Kaepernick, who is a free agent. Mara said he thinks Kaepernick will end up on an NFL roster this season.

“I think he still has some good football left in him. I agree with that,” Mara said on The Michael Kay Show. “But obviously there are other issues that go along with him. Is he willing to sit as a backup behind a starter? What’s that going to do with your locker room, your quarterback room, with your offensive room?”

Those are all questions many people have been asking when it comes to Kaepernick. Another question some have been wondering is whether the free agent QB is being blackballed by the league. Mara says that’s not the case.




“Absolutely not. Anybody who thinks there has been any conversations going on among teams about Colin Kaepernick is crazy,” Mara said. “That just is not the case. I saw a quote, I think it was [Dolphins owner] Steve Ross in Miami said recently: ‘Teams want to win so badly that if they believe a player can help them win, they are going to bring them on.’

“And I think there are certain issues that go along with Colin Kaepernick, and that may have scared some teams away. But there is absolutely no blackball going on here. I just don’t see that at all.”

The Baltimore Ravens were the most recent team to seriously discuss adding Kaepernick. They acknowledged they were checking fan and sponsor reaction before making such a drastic move.

Perhaps the best chance Kaepernick will have of joining an NFL team will come when a team loses its starter and has to turn to an ill-equipped backup. At that point they may decide that Kaepernick is worth signing. Until then, teams are showing that they’d rather have a QB who provides fewer distractions.

This NFL Player Got Fined for Celebrating His Touchdown by Twerking

After scoring his second touchdown against Washington on Monday, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown decided to celebrate with a little bit of twerking.

But not everyone was amused by the NFL star's flawless moves: According toESPN, Brown was slapped with a hefty fine for his "unsportsmanlike conduct," plus an additional fee for wearing a pair of baby-blue cleats that "violated uniform protocol." Mashable adds that Brown was likely flagged due to the "sexually suggestive" category of the NFL's conduct bylaws, something Key & Peele hilariously tackled with an incredible sketch in 2013.

ESPN estimates Brown was charged $12,154 for the twerking and $9,115 for the shoes — but when asked for his reaction to the exorbitant fees, he was totally unfazed and came back with the most badass response of all time.

"Nothing to a boss," he said.

I feel it, @AntonioBrown84https://t.co/2VHAA3Xfco

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) September 13, 2016