By Miguel Rapetti
Sep 30, 2023, 7:27 PM EDT
Las Vegas Raiders star Chandler Jones was arrested this Friday and later sent against his will to a psychiatric hospital in order to provide him with the necessary support for the mental health problems he has faced in recent days.
Jones was jailed and sent to a Clark County detention center in Las Vegas for allegedly violating a restraining order that the athlete had been sentenced to for some time.
However, what has worried both his team and the NFL is the mental state of the Super Bowl XLIX champion, which led him to be included since the beginning of the season on the restrictive non-injury list, so he is still It has not debuted in 2023 and has missed the first 3 commitments of its currency.
“The Raiders are hopeful that Chandler Jones receives the attention he needs. He, his family and everyone involved are in our thoughts. As this is now a legal matter, we will not comment further,” the team said.
Jones, 33, has made posts on his social media accounts that have worried his colleagues, such as last Tuesday, when he claimed that he had been taken to a mental health institution without his consent.
“I haven’t done anything wrong. They just told me that people were worried about me because of my online posts,” the four-time Pro Bowl selection wrote on his social media feed.
Last Thursday Chandler Jones took to his social networks again. In them he made controversial comments about the death of Aaron Hernández, former Patriots player, who was sentenced to life in prison for the crime of murder; He passed away in 2017.