NFL locations Jaguars CB Chris Claybrooks on exempt checklist amid home violence expenses

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The NFL positioned Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Chris Claybrooks on the commissioner’s exempt checklist Tuesday following his July arrest on home battery and false imprisonment expenses.

Claybrooks is just not allowed to observe or attend video games whereas on the checklist. The announcement got here because the Jaguars paired down their roster to 53 gamers.

A fourth-year backup from Memphis, Claybrooks has a pretrial listening to scheduled for Sept. 11 that might present some readability on whether or not the league suspends him, and if that’s the case, for a way lengthy.

Claybrooks entered a plea of not responsible earlier this month. The home battery cost is a misdemeanor, and the false imprisonment cost is a third-degree felony.

The 26-year-old defender was arrested after the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office investigated an incident from September 2022. A lady advised police she and Claybrooks argued, and when she tried to go away their shared residence, he restrained her, in accordance with an arrest report.

The girl offered investigators with a video displaying Claybrooks forcefully grabbing her, shifting her again into the house and restraining her higher physique, in accordance with the report.

It was the second time Claybrooks has been arrested and charged with home assault. He additionally was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, in mid-April and charged with misdemeanor home assault with bodily harm and vandalism.