Saints tight end Jimmy Graham was arrested last night in California, according to a statement from the team (via Twitter). TMZ Sports was first with the news. The Saints are currently in California preparing for tomorrow’s preseason game against the Chargers.
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In their statement, the Saints attributed the incident to a “medical episode.”
“New Orleans Saints tight end Jimmy Graham experienced a medical episode last evening, which resulted in him becoming disoriented,” according to the statement. “He was taken into custody by local authorities and transported to a local hospital for evaluation for what Dr. John Amoss believes to be a likely seizure and spent the night under medical supervision and testing. Amoss met Graham at the hospital and is overseeing his care at this time. He was released this morning and is with the team as they continue preparations for Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Chargers.”
Per the TMZ report, officers responded to a call regarding a “suspicious person acting erratically.” Police found Graham “wandering in traffic” near a Southern California resort, and when officers attempted to arrest the athlete, Graham resisted.
The NFL veteran was ultimately arrested for “suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance and resisting, delaying and obstructing a police officer.” Both of those charges are misdemeanors. Graham has since been released from custody and the incident is under investigation.
After going unsigned during the 2022 season, Graham signed a one-year deal with the Saints in late July. The deal reunited Graham with the franchise that selected him in the third round of the 2010 draft. The tight end ultimately spent five years in New Orleans, hauling in 51 touchdowns in 78 games. Graham has since had stints with the Seahawks, Packers, and Bears. He most recently got into 15 games (six starts) for Chicago in 2021, finishing with 14 catches for 167 yards and three scores.
Graham was already facing an uphill battle to make the Saints’ roster. The team already has three clear TEs atop the depth chart, including incumbent Juwan Johnson, free agent addition Foster Moreau, and Swiss Army Knife Taysom Hill. We’ll see how last night’s incident impacts his roster status.
Does Jimmy Graham have a concussion history? Possibly cte related?
10% chance cte 70% chance drugs and alcohol 20% chance mental health crisis
It’s probably D all of the above
Really? Because literally every other report in every other outlet says he was arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance wandering in traffic, with no mention of a medical episode
Not ESPN, they are saying a doctor thinks it was seizure related symptoms
As someone that has a history of seizures – this does not seem like a reaction to a grand mal seizure. I would wake up disoriented, but I never got up and started walking around. And I usually figured everything out within a few minutes.
Now that his PR team got a statement out the outlets are reporting it like that. But when I made the initial comment you couldn’t find one article that mentioned the possibility of a seizure, only controlled-substance impairment
He thought he was Trevor from GTA.
My man!
Into men beat on women. Man I want to make you bleed
Stop being such a coward and fight me. God damn
Attaboy, Jimmy, live it up while you can.
As if that’s not enough, the NFL has not stepped in to postpone or cancel the Saints-Chargers preseason game. Los Angeles County is now under a tropical storm warning with Hurricane Hilary moving northward from the Baja California peninsula. A flood watch will be in effect Sunday morning through Monday morning.
(Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer have already rescheduled the Sunday games that were to be affected by Hilary.)
Yeah, because they typically don’t play baseball in rain for safety reasons, whereas football is played in storms every single year
Yeah, those were the days. But you’re living in the past if you say football at any level plays games in storms. Not anymore.
Bills and Dolphins literally played in a snow storm last year. Wtf are you talking about teams dont play in storms anymore lol. Guys had to dig out snow to make places for kickers.
link to youtu.be
We’re talking lightning with a tropical storm.
Rain? Is that what you call a hurricane?
I thought it never rains in Southern California? I heard it on the radio.
Toni Tony Tone, more specifically Raphael Saadiq, is great but that song moves too slowly and has at least one too many choruses. Just kinda drags on.
It’s funny how these PR people think the rest of the world is full of gullible idiots.
Lay off the weed son
Spoken as someone whos never smoked weed. Weed doesnt make you walk into traffic or behave belligerently. It makes you laugh, makes you hungry and makes you lazy. Tjats about it.
On its own, in someone whose brain is functioning normally, it wouldn’t. But if Jimmy is on certain prescription drugs and he mixed the two, it could.
Weed’s upwards of 30% THC in common strains today, with smokable variants going above 50%. Dab pens are 99% THC. THC induces psychosis, which is the reason that it gets classified alongside other “harder” drugs in most of the country. No, the symptoms described by the article don’t make me think marijuana first off, but people do not all react the same way to THC.
Additionally, strains today are much more powerful than even in ten years past, and these strains also produce minimal levels of CBD, which is the more beneficial component in marijuana. The conventional wisdom of “just making you laugh and have the munchies” is severely outdated when discussing the environment today. What also is possible is the combination of marijuana use with other drugs (including of course alcohol), or mental conditions. Like with alcohol, many people with mental conditions “self medicate” with marijuana to temporarily experience relief, but in the long run further imbalance their conditions.
Weed isn’t the first thing that comes to my mind when I read this story, and I won’t speculate on what Graham was doing or what may have happened to him, but I do have to say that there is more to consider with marijuana today than past conversations have accounted for, so while we can’t say that it is responsible based off this information, we can’t say that it’s impossible.
thanks mom
No one’s called me that since…
You’re alive?!
Saints love their criminals lmao
I suppose I should extend a thank you to Jimmy. The next time my wife accuses me of being unreasonable and acting irrational, I’ll be able to blame it on the Graham Crackers.