There was a school of thought by some heading into the NFL lockout that, without the environment of a team-structured offseason, players would wreak havoc by getting arrested, doing drugs and generally being knuckleheads.
NFL Player Arrests Are Down Slightly During NFL Lockout
We've heard of some cases of players acting out -- lookin' at you, Kenny Britt -- but would you believe that player arrests are actually down during the lockout compared to the same time period last year?
Player arrests are at less than one percent of the entire league -- 16 players arrested since the lockout began in March.
Such a figure is lower than what the general populace averaged in the most recent set of complete crime data compiled by the FBI. With the exception of 35-year-old Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Mike Vrabel - who is charged with stealing eight bottles of beer from an Indiana casino - the ages of NFL players cited this offseason ranges from 22 to 29. The overall number of US males arrested in that same bracket stood at 3.2 percent for 2009.
What likely happens is that these NFL players are arrested and it’s splattered all over the news suggesting to the fans that there are more arrests than there actually are.
So is it fair of us to hold NFL players to a higher standard than the average person?
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