Titans running back Hassan Haskins was arrested on an assault charge Thursday, Caleb Wethington of WSMV reports. Metro Nashville Police booked the second-year back on an aggravated assault by strangulation charge.
Haskins was released on bond later Thursday, ESPN.com’s Turron Davenport adds. The Titans released a statement indicating they are aware of the arrest. Haskins, 23, is scheduled to appear in Davidson County Court July 10.
The Titans chose Haskins in the 2022 fourth round out of Michigan. The Eureka, Missouri, native shined in a breakout 2021 season with the Wolverines, rushing for 1,327 yards and totaling 20 touchdowns. He spent his rookie season as Derrick Henry‘s top backup. Haskins’ 25 carries were the second-most by a Tennessee running back last season.
In addition to potential legal punishment, this arrest puts Haskins on the radar for a suspension and a possible Titans exit. Haskins gained 93 yards on his 25 totes last season, adding 11 receptions. But the Titans have since changed general managers since selecting him 131st overall last year. Ran Carthon replaced Jon Robinson atop the team’s front office, and the team chose Tulane’s Tyjae Spears in this year’s third round. Spears is also a clear candidate to become Henry’s top backup.
If you can get suspended up to a year for gambling, same should be done for these types of charges.
I see your point, but at the same time, gambling is league related. Even betting on other sports as a professional athlete isn’t a great look. The punishment should be more serious for things that affect the integrity of the game in some fashion. Is this a worse charge overall? Yes. Should the league be in charge of punishing criminal behavior? I don’t know.
It seems wrong to see a player going about his business with charges like this hanging overhead, but the league also just punishes arbitrarily (like Ezekiel Elliott). I would honestly rather see courts enforce laws in general than leaving it up to the NFL to fill that gap. I mean, I am not advocating for “tougher” laws by any means. We have decent laws already. They just need to be enforced more of the time. The NFL is more concerned with optics than anything else, so while it would be good to see meaningful consequences for wrongdoers, I don’t think that I would trust them to be fair or consistent.
I have no idea if Haskins did what he’s accused of, mind you. I don’t mean to say that he is and I am not speculating as to what will or should happen to him specifically. But I do think that if we could trust courts to fairly and consistently hold actually guilty people responsible, the NFL could rightfully stick to governing activities that affect the integrity of the game.
It’s all about the arbitrary judgements by the NFL. The gambling issue is absolutely a real problem. But obviously, their romance with Draftkings and other sites makes them look like the biggest money grabbing hypocrites of all time. Then there’s this clown.. with a strangulation charge. That is next level.
And plenty other players with just as horrific charges.
It is, but why is that the NFL’s responsibility to review? If we could trust the NFL to make sound and consistent judgement, that would be. I do not. But the NFL does need to concern itself with the game because no one else is supposed to. I just don’t trust the NFL to be either fair or consistent.
Another one bites the dust.
Hopefully the victim is okay.
Well from a fantasy football stand point T. Spears now becomes an excellent backup RB for an insurance policy if Derrick Henry is your RB1 this coming season.
Am I the only one who appreciates the irony of two successive articles, one with this guy and the other with Mixon?
You can only hope the victim is doing ok. Some of these athletes man always into guns, weed, domestic violence, etc, you name it. What a shame sorry example to a society…
Guns are legal and while I am not a big fan of weed in a lot of places it’s legal. The big issue is the constant DUIs and domestic violence as well as the ever annoying culture developing in both the NFL and NBA
what has weed got to do with anything?
I assume he means some of the DWIs and the fact the league still does suspend for weed
These idiot athletes can’t stay out of trouble man. It’s ridiculous. You’re getting paid six figures to play a kids game
Totally agree and not to be picky…but most are getting seven figures
I don’t understand why people see this stuff constantly and still get on this site and bemoaning the fact that they can’t understand why these athletes keep getting in trouble. It’s pretty simple. So many of these dudes were raised in very rough situations. When you see poverty and violence on a daily basis and are not getting the guidance you need to grow up right it is very often going to carry over into your adult life. When you are raised where your dad beats your mom or your mother sells drugs to put food on the table and there’s gangs and guns around every corner it becomes part of you.
And then one day you’re in a situation where you don’t have the ability or mechanisms to cope with a problem and you lash out the only way you know how and then you got a bunch of white people judging you to be an idiot and lover and calling for your head. Tell ya what all……why don’t all you judgemental people take a drive down south to some of the poorest black neighborhoods in the country or go to some of the ghettos on the eastern seaboard or go to South Central LA or skid row and spend a year there and then ask yourself why these kids keep getting into trouble when they seemingly have it all at their fingertips as professional athletes? Go take a walk in the shoes of the poor black folk in this country and then ask yourself why you don’t understand.
I’m black and grew up in poverty and never have committed a crime. No excuses
It’s not about your color man.
Skin got nothing to do with it.
And yet your post above specifically implores people to take a walk in the shoes of the “poor black folks”…
I always enjoy a good scolding from someone who got their sociology degree from a college that advertises it’s courses on matchbook covers.
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ya it’s so simple. glad you have all the answers.
Why would anyone in Tennessee need to be assaulted? I thought they were all Volunteers.
Other than their location there is nothing Tennessee about this organization.