An NFL wide receiver was dropped by his team this week after he was charged with DUI for crashing his fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro into a lake in Put-In-Bay, Ohio.
Jermiah Braswell, 23, was picked up by the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent shortly after the 2020 NFL draft. Unfortunately for him, though, his time in the big leagues was over before it even began. According to the Put-In-Bay Police, Braswell was behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Camaro when it veered off the road, drove off a grass embankment and landed in Lake Erie.
When police arrived on the scene, they approached the orange Camaro and found Braswell “was still in the driver’s seat trying to drive forward.” He allegedly told officers that he was “stuck” and didn’t know how his vehicle had landed in the water. Police then noticed his speech was slurred and administered a breathalyzer test. Braswell was found to be over Ohio’s legal blood alcohol content limit for operating a motor vehicle and was subsequently placed under arrest.
Photos of the scene show Braswell’s Chevrolet Camaro, which appears to be outfitted with large aftermarket wheels, sitting stranded near the shore of Lake Erie with rather significant front and rear-end damage. The airbag appears to have also gone off in the crash.
Braswell previously played football for Youngstown State and racked up 11 touchdowns with 986 yards in 40 games over four seasons with the school. Not surprisingly, the Cardinals have now elected to drop Braswell from the team, though he wasn’t guaranteed to make the roster this season.
Thankfully this was a single-vehicle crash and no one, Braswell included, was hurt in the accident. Put-In-Bay is a popular destination for tourists and vacationers this time of year, so it’s a relief that no pedestrians, cars or golf carts were collected by Braswell’s speeding, out-of-control Camaro.
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Photos via Put-In-Bay Police
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Put-In-Bay, Ohio…
You can’t make this stuff up.
Such a shame, the guy had all the right opportunities and threw it away for nothing
Fire people for everything now. Like people never make mistakes. Also would be nice if media reported on the facts. Like after market wheels are pertinent to the story or the what if there had been injured pedestrians or other damage. Are we going to punish people for the what is now.
DUI’s are not taken lightly as they are serious crimes and put others in danger. Many companies have a no tolerance policy for DUI, especially when this kid has never even played a down for the team and was not guaranteed a spot on the 53-man roster. He was expendable. They have many other receivers on the roster that do not break the law and drive drunk.
note to all nfl players get a awd car with all season tires
And, well you know………….learn to drive.
Whoever wrote this garbage clearly isn’t a car guy.
Maybe if his Camaro was in Cardinal colors instead of Brown’s colors, they would have kept him!
This is your NFL role model for our youth.
Rather than knee-jerk reaction from team management, as well as the media and public, shouldn’t he be afforded his Constitutional right to be PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY? I have been practicing law, primarily criminal law, for over 50 years. I attended the National College for DWI Defense at Harvard University, and learned how often not guilty persons are convicted by jurors who believe no one who has anything to drink should drive. That IS NOT THE LAW! The general public has no idea how many erroneous results are produced by BOTH breath testing as well as blood testing! Jurors job is to protect this from becoming a “police state” where you, your family, neighbors, are presumed guilty if they are arrested. There can be no “maybe, “probably”, or “ought to be” when dealing with any person’s life or liberty. PROOF of Guilt is BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT! What is a “reasonable doubt is hard to define, but it is beyond the amount of evidence required for the State or Federal government to take and remove your children from you and place in foster care or otherwise. You parents, how much evidence would you require before the government TOOK YOUR CHILDREN? Quit listening to Media Buzz Words designed your appeal to your reactions without facts to back those words up! YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF, THE COMMUNITY, YOUR CONSTITUTION, and YOUR BILL OF RIGHTS! THIS IS AMERICA! BE PROUD OF WHAT WE STAND FOR!
He got drunk off his a$$ and crashed his car. Its as simple as that. Not even an attorney trained at Harvard Law School can spin that any other way.
You could have stopped at “I attended Harvard University”. Liberal college, high tuition while sitting on a large endowment. Paid Pocahontas Warren over $350,000 a year to teach one class. 99% of people arrested for drunk driving are guilty. Working to get people off just makes you an enabler putting the rest of us in danger.
Are the rims available?
I Have NEVER met a smart one, EVER!
Oh please do tell what do you so mean?. Not smart 5th graders, circus performers, skateboarders, professors…….
Football player. What do you think he means?
Let him answer himself, counselor……
People (even minorites) know about “talking in codes”
“Talking in codes”. You mean, putting words in peoples’ mouths, then shouting them down?
Objection, your Honor!!!
Does this guy come under the blm if so he will get his job back and the cops will get fired!
He is young and made a mistake. Thank God nobody was injured. Arizona should have stood by the young man. Too easy these days to just to bail on these young men. This could have been a great learning moment for all involved. Look at Tyrann Mathieu.
Drunk driving a 2 ton muscle car and only suffering some financial loss, humiliation, and the ax early in life was a blessing. People are routinely killed by such irresponsible drivers.
Talks like a lawyer, looks like a lawyer, spins like a lawyer. Another lawyer justifying this man’s actions. Sir, you are spinning out of control!
I don’t know how I got here.
I don’t know why I can’t get any traction in
a lake, pond or any such deep body of water.
I drust be munk?
Young and really dumb.
LMOA!!!
If you can’t count on him to not drive impaired and keep his car out of deep water, can you really count on him to know his multiple assignments on offense?
Right now I believe the answer is no.
The Arizona Cardinals apparently think the same.
I cannot believe anyone would admit they are a lawyer…..what is the difference between a lawyer and a snake lying in the road? Skid marks before the snake.
I think he misunderstood the sign that said Put-in-bay
Just another rocket scientist from the NFL. They are idiots starting at the top. I’m completely done with professional football. Boycott the NFL starting today – make them feel the pain!!!
I guarantee some of these perfect people commenting and bad mouthing this dude done drove drunk more than once probably crashed once while driving to ……but that’s gonna be y’all lil secret and probably sit on here and lie and say you didnt…….
wait he was a nfl player driving a v6 camaro ???? doesn’t makes sense.
He is fresh out of college and has never earned a dime from the NFL. Now, because of his foolish decision, he may never will. A very expensive mistake indeed.
BJ Welch, Ihavent laughed that hard in months over a comment that was freaking funny.
Too bad the Cardinals organization isn’t interested in helping this young man. Alcoholism is a serious problem for so many people who don’t realize it and need help. If he’s still in the car telling officers he’s stuck, there’s a problem.
I’ve seen worst done in the sports world. Give’em a break.
Love the people trying to make this about race. Regardless of his skin, if he’s a first round pick he doesn’t get dropped. Anyone who knows the NFL knows an undrafted free agent is on thin ice day 1.
They did the right thing by dropping the fool.
To be fair he just read the sign “Put In Bay”.
Come on really!!!
Seen worse from professional football players..aholes Arizona..😠
Honestly. Arizona sports GM’s, not all, but majority only care about keeping the money in their pockets. They don’t care to keep or pay players if it means less money for them.
He should not be kicked off the team for a DUI. O many other players have been arrested for some realy bad mistakes and they are still on the NFL pay roll. He needs to prove now that he can be responsible and a good leader. LET OTHERS KNOW DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE PUTS MANY LIFES IN DANGER
Stupid is as stupid does maybe he’ll get another chance to prove that a black man came in about race is the fact that we work twice as hard to getOne step further and he just took 20 back at least they didn’t find the glove on him with a knife
So crashing a car while DWI sets an entire race back?.
Maybe, he needs a Bambi Pole….lol
Why does someone have to make it a race issue. Only a racist would do that.. let’s pray he makes a full recovery from his devil’s juice and gets his life back in order… You armchair critics are a real laugh…
White folks are slowly waking up and not caring about sports. How are illiterate violent blacks supposed to be millionaires now?
And here’s why America gets nowhere, can’t get over race….
Hopefully his bad decisions will get behind him, and he can get another shot at the NFL.
EVERYBODY needs a second chance, EVERYBODY makes mistakes. Were all human