As a seventh-round pick during the COVID-19 season, Jaguars cornerback Chris Claybrooks faced long odds to remain on an NFL roster. After three years in the league, Claybrooks has made things substantially harder for himself. His most recent self-inflicted hurdle came yesterday as Claybrooks was arrested and booked in Duval County, according to Demetrius Harvey of the Jacksonville Florida Times-Union. 
This isn’t Claybrooks’s first run in with the law. It’s not even his first run in with the law this offseason. Back in late-April, Claybrooks faced misdemeanor charges of domestic assault with bodily injury and vandalism under $1,000 after an incident in which he allegedly grabbed his ex-girlfriend’s arm and threw her cellphone to the ground. The charges were eventually dropped after a settlement was reached in the case.
This time, Claybrooks faces a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery and a third-degree felony charge of false imprisonment. He was booked around 4:30pm yesterday and set to appear in court this morning. Claybrooks has a bond of $25,000 and is to have no contact with the alleged victim, no firearms, and no traveling outside the state of Florida.
The Jaguars released the following statement shortly after the arrest:
We are aware of the arrest of Chris Claybrooks and are currently in the process of gathering information. We will have no further comment at this time.
Claybrooks, if he were to remain with the team, would serve as a depth piece in the secondary and on special teams. He saw his most action as a rookie, when he played a third of the team’s defensive snaps, but he’s seen diminishing field time in each year since. His six starts on defense came in his first two years, and despite playing in every game in 2022, he primarily served as a special teamer last year.
Given Claybrooks’s slow demotion over the past two years and his recent legal troubles, it’s hard to imagine a future in which Claybrooks stays on the team. Jacksonville is being patient in their diagnosis of the situation, but repeat offenses so close together is going to be hard to overlook for a player who contributed to four percent of the Jaguars’ defensive snaps last season.
His NFL career is over.
Hope all the things he learned in college help him in his next career…
A player has no value if most of his snaps occur on special teams?
Buh bye, hope that gash was worth it…
These Players are idiots … they are in a profession where the SKY is the limit financially and some of them cannot behave.
Especially when you’re a fringe player just hoping to hang onto a roster spot. You’ve got to give them every reason to keep you around, not an easy reason to send you packing. Now he’s just another player for the USFL/XFL roster pool.