Hours after the Rams’ Week 6 win over the Cardinals, cornerback Derion Kendrick was arrested on a felony gun charge in Los Angeles, TMZ reports.
A traffic violation led to police finding a gun and marijuana in Kendrick’s car, per TMZ. The second-year cornerback faces a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. Kendrick, 23, was booked shortly after 2am PT and, as of Monday afternoon, remains in custody.
After letting Darious Williams walk in free agency (to the Jaguars) in 2022, the Rams traded Jalen Ramsey to the Dolphins in March. The team signed off on a full-scale reboot at cornerback, moving on from the bastions from Super Bowl LVI. Kendrick is a key part of the team’s solution, having started all six Rams games this season. The 6-foot defender started six games last season and played 50% of the Rams’ defensive snaps. He has been on the field for 96% of L.A.’s defensive plays this year.
The Rams chose Kendrick in the 2022 sixth round. The Day 3 prospect played at Clemson and Georgia in college, being part of the Bulldogs’ 2021 national championship-winning defense — one that saw five of its starters drafted in the ’22 first round — in his lone season in Athens. Kendrick joins fellow 2022 Day 3 Rams draftee Cobie Durant and veteran free agent pickup Ahkello Witherspoon as the team’s cornerback regulars this season. Through six games, Kendrick has made 25 tackles and tallied three passes defensed. Pro Football Focus ranks Kendrick just outside the top 60 at corner this year.
While this arrest is unlikely to cost Kendrick his Rams roster spot, a suspension should be expected. The NFL’s personal conduct policy does not require a conviction for punishment to be levied, though a ban may not come this year. Varying delays in case adjudication can lead to suspensions being tabled. A February 2021 incident did not bring a Marcus Maye suspension until late September of this year. Two Frank Clark gun-related arrests from 2021 did not produce a suspension until midway through the 2022 campaign. But a suspension should be expected at some point in the not-too-distant future.
Are these guys rolling around selling weed? Bro it’s 2023 what are you thinking
Why not just get the carry license? So easy to do. These arrests are absolute non-sense.
I am curious how easy it truly is to get a “permit” to have a firearm in Los Angeles. A quick internet search indicates it is difficult.
I see what you’e saying. Google says it could take up to a year in LA. I don’t have a license for any state, I thought it was faster than that. With that said, I wouldn’t be driving around with weed and an illegal gun!
Funny part is I think the weed isn’t an issue there. I don’t know. Here where I live no license required for either just don’t be high and driving.
Not illegal gun…undocumented gun!
Anything takes up to a year in California…their bureaucracy is atrocious.
Great, let’s take that high paying elite job that you dreamed about your whole life, and throw it away cause it’s sooo important to have a gun in your car.
Dummies. Never understand finally realizing lifelong dream of being high paid professional athlete n then the need 2armor up n ride hard w/loaded handguns. N weed. Can take the thug outa the hood but u can’t …
Similarly…never understood why guys with truck nuts needed machine guns to hunt deer, but…here we are.
You clearly don’t understand what you’re talking about
66 – nobody hunts deer with a machine gun. Nice try. We’re getting very close to the day where a lot of you who believe the 2nd amendment is outdated are going to quickly change your minds, but alas, it will be too late. Just hide in your safe space and maybe you’ll be okay.
I own guns. I ‘ve shot lots of deer. Yet a machine gun is nothing I’ve ever wanted or needed. You seem like they type of person who thinks food comes from a grocery store. A person who has never had to butcher an animal for its meat. You may also have never grown your own tomatoes , corn , asparagus and chickens and such.
You may consider yourself lucky to never have had your hands in blood or in the dirt. But where I come from we feed YOU and the rest of the world.
Almost everyone I know owns multiple guns and are VERY proficient with them . Yet we somehow manage to never ever have fired them at a human being. I guess it’s because everyone I know isn’t a gang banger drug user without a education.
Lol
“Well, it’s almost 2am and need to get back to the place. I’ve got weed and a gun, maybe I should just call an Uber. Hell with it, takes too long. I’ll drive, what could happen?”
Lol
Surprised the LA cops booked a starting Rams cornerback on these charges. It’s usually the out of town players who get charged for misdemeanours. Good on them for not giving a fame exception. Maybe the cop hates football or her husband watches too much football.