{"id":26528,"date":"2026-03-03T11:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/darron-lee-ex-nfl-player-charged-with-murdering-girlfriend\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:32:25","slug":"darron-lee-ex-nfl-player-charged-with-murdering-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/darron-lee-ex-nfl-player-charged-with-murdering-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Darron Lee: Ex-NFL player charged with murdering girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The name of the victim is being withheld until her next of kin has been informed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee, a first-round draft pick for the New York Jets in 2016, last played in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His four-year deal with the Jets was cut short by a year in 2019, when he left the franchise because of disciplinary problems and poor form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee was part of the Kansas City Chiefs&#8217; roster that won the Super Bowl in 2020, although he did not feature in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He signed with the Las Vegas Raiders in June 2021 but did not play before his release two months later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee was arrested in 2023 for assault and domestic violence. The arrest report said he pushed a woman &#8220;against the wall, throwing her to the floor and striking her face and head eight to nine times with his closed fists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cn8j8jezgpdo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of the victim is being withheld until her next of kin has been informed. Lee, a first-round draft pick for the New York Jets in 2016, last played in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills in 2020. His four-year deal with the Jets was cut short by a year in 2019, when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26530,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26528\/revisions\/26530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}