One season removed from an 18.5-sack performance on the Bears, veteran pass rusher Robert Quinn may struggle to find his way to a new team for the 2023 NFL season. According to Blair Sabol and Kevin Bilodeau of WCSC5 in Charleston, Quinn was arrested Tuesday night and is facing multiple charges stemming from a hit-and-run incident that took place that evening. 
This isn’t Quinn’s first run in with the law. Back in 2012, Quinn was behind the wheel during a single-car crash in Missouri that led to him being charged with Driving While Intoxicated and driving without insurance. He ended up pleading guilty to reduced charges of Failure to Exercise a High Degree of Care a month later and paid a nominal $277 fine.
Technically not a legal incident, Quinn also was disassociated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010 after lying about receiving travel accommodations and jewelry as an amateur in college, leading to his ineligibility to play for the NCAA and an eventual early declaration that he would go to the NFL. Despite sitting out his entire junior season due to the incident, Quinn still ended up getting drafted in the first half of the first round in 2011 by the Rams. He also received a two-game suspension in 2019 for violating the league’s performance-enhancing drug policy.
This most recent incident was reported by neighbors of a South Carolina community who reported that they saw Quinn hit four cars, a gate, and a light post. Afterwards, he reportedly left his vehicle and attempted to bribe one of the vehicles’ owners with offers of beer and new cars on his own dime. That conversation reportedly detiorated into an altercation during which Quinn allegedly slapped the woman twice.
Quinn is being charged with a hit and run with someone in the vehicle, four hit-and-runs that were unintended, striking a highway feature, and 3rd degree assault and battery. The responding officer on the scene reportedly found an opened container of alcohol in the vehicle, but it doesn’t appear that any alcohol-related charges were applied. He was granted bonds in the amount of just over $7K.
Quinn’s playing career has been a rollercoaster ride of late. After ending his time with the Rams and being traded to Miami, Quinn was riding a four-year streak of failing to amass a double-digit sack total. A strong 11.5-sack season in Dallas, after being traded from the Dolphins, led to a strong five-year, $70MM contract with the Bears in 2020. After a disappointing two-sack debut season in Chicago, Quinn recorded his second-highest career sack total the following year.
Midway through the third year of his new contract, the Bears traded Quinn once again, this time sending him to the Eagles. Upon arriving in Philadelphia, the Eagles voided the final two years of his contract on a mutual decision that would send Quinn to free agency at the end of the season. He was placed on injured reserve late in the year before receiving arthroscopic knee surgery. He returned in time for the playoffs, though, contributing minimally to the team’s Super Bowl run. He ended the year with one sack between his time in Chicago and Philadelphia.
Quinn’s ability to push 20.0 sacks into his thirties might have been enough for some contender to overlook as they attempt to bring in pass rushing help just before the regular season. With more legal issues to deal with now, there’s a chance the NFL may be without Quinn in a season for the first time since 2010.
He hit so many people on the field he thought he would try cars for a change.
As we saw with Joe Mixon nothing will happen to him. At worst he gives them all money and everyone is happy. The 1% never pay the price no matter what they do. Slapping a women let him rot in jail
Keep believing everything you see on the internet…
Wtf is wrong with you. Please tell me how I’m wrong Watson got away with it mixon got away with tyreek hill, ap, Marvin Harrison, Brett favre, the list goes on and on. Let’s not forget the rapist Kobe who never faced charges for his actions. Some of you are so stupid it’s hard to even talk to you
RIP Kobe, no need to talk ill of the dead.
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My man!
Rapscallions need not live in an HOA lest they be ratted on by nosy neighbors. Name of the game.
Yea he hit a women bet he’s your hero now
She had it comin
What a coward
Ya she was a real piece of work
Ready to fight yet puss?
I hate to hear that. A number of young Bear’s players talked about how much they learned from him and what a great mentor he was. I hope he gets help.
typical eagles player
Yeah, played briefly with Philly and walked with 2 tackles to his credit, forget the 167 games he played elsewhere, he’s definitely an Eagle.
Guy doesn’t have good negotiating skills. How do you go from beer straight to a new car? He should have worked his way up to that. Maybe something like a $500 shopping spree.
Lumping the NCAA rules violation in with the legal incidents is silly. Anyone banned due to recruiting violations is a martyr.
Proving DUI or Open Container after a suspect has long been out of the vehicle is pretty difficult, since you’d have to definitely place him in it and there is a time limit (two hours) for a breath test (three hours for blood draw) in S.C. So I expect that’s why there’s no alcohol related charge. S.C. has what may be the most stringent DUI in the country (in terms of burden of proof) and it’s very easy to defeat that charge there if every step is not followed to the T.
That said, Quinn is still facing some serious tickets. Hit and Run of an Occupied Vehicle is $10,400 as a maximum in S.C. if there’s a serious injury, and $5000 if there isn’t. The unoccupied vehicles are much less, at $232.50 (which is pretty much the standard traffic penalty). That assault charge could be either magistrate or general sessions, if all the charges get sent up (which is likely given that the attended both and run is a general sessions charge). That charge is $500 maximum in fines, but with court fees and other such things, it goes higher. The attached article mentioned $1087. The assault and the hit and run attended both could carry short jail sentences as well (I think that it’s thirty days each). The light pole damage should have qualified for a charge as well, not sure if that was included.
It’s very easy to get away with hit and run in S.C. (I mean EXTREMELY easy) because you not only have to identify the vehicle, you have to identify the driver, AND you have to place the driver operating the vehicle at the time. Most people just drive away and never get caught, because you can’t ticket the registered owner of the car even if you identify it (like you do with a parking ticket). In that way, the victims are ironically pretty lucky that it was someone they knew or could recognize, because if he didn’t get out and try talking to them, he’d have likely not been identified (even though he avoided the more serious DUI charge and the Open Container/illegal Transport of Liquor-though I would argue that if I could place in the car as the driver, I could place the container as his, to which his representation would say that someone could have put it there after). Not sure when the bottle was seen by the officer in the car, though.
In any case, there’s a good bit of charges. I’m sorry for the victims (why does Apple autocorrect always want to put an apostrophe on plural words-it changed “victims” to Victim’s” over and over) that this happened, but at least got the rare hit and run that ended up being charged. Hopefully Quinn makes every effort to improve and the victims get their due from him in court.
I don’t think anyone should be shocked that S.C is extremely forgiving of irresponsible driving. This is the heart of NASCAR country after all. Perhaps Quinn, Carter and some of the other motoring menaces in the NFL should be transferring their skills to the paved ovals.
Well, it’s mostly that the legislature has been influenced by quite a few lawyers to make the regulations regarding DUIs quite specific and lengthy. I’d say that it’s mostly the richer clients getting arrested and their associates who pushed that.
But yeah, prosecution for alcohol related DUIs is quite strict in comparison to many states, and drug-related DUIs are much harder (to even begin the charge, the officer needs several very high level certifications that require a deluge of certifications). Blood tests (which sometimes are the only available method of proving BAC levels) are technically provided for at law enforcement’s discretion, but practically are extremely difficult. The laws and issued Attourney General/Supreme Court opinions just give defense attourneys a lot to poke at and unravel a case, and it’s extremely easy to lose one on a technicality for many officers/prosecutors. Not to mention, the state of prosecution and courts in general in S.C. is rather poor, as they’d rather not pursue cases or enforce laws in general, but that’s another topic.
They need to find a demolition derby somewhere….