Damon Arnette is getting a second likelihood at an NFL life.
The 28-year-old cornerback, launched by the Raiders in 2021 after posting a video to social media during which he brandished weapons and threatened an unnamed particular person’s life, signed on with the Houston Texans on Friday.
A primary-round choose within the 2020 draft, Arnette was charged in a hit-and-run incident earlier than posting and deleting the video.
“From my perspective, he’s a very talented young man with a good heart,” then-Raiders GM Mike Maycock mentioned. “He cleans up his life, I know he can make a living in the NFL. But not now, with the Raiders.”
His authorized woes continued as he sought work, getting jailed in Las Vegas in January 2022 — 9 days after signing a futures contract with the Chiefs — on two counts of assault with a lethal weapon, carrying or concealing a gun and not using a allow, possession of a managed substance, and possession of marijuana or hashish.
Whereas the case was dropped by Clark County officers, he agreed to a plea deal after a grand jury later indicted him on the weapons-related expenses.
He was arrested on gun and meth expenses in a February 2024 incident.
“I had to take a look in the mirror,” Arnette advised KPRC in Could. “I had to make some serious life changes. And the main thing that I did was I invited back my support system, my foundation, and that’s probably something I will never let go of again because I see how dangerous it is to be trying to navigate in a new world, new environment, new situations with no experience. So, I definitely learn from that end.”
The Ohio State product caught NFL groups’ eyes by spending the 2025 season with the UFL’s Roughnecks.
His 19 tackles, sack and interception have been sufficient to pique the curiosity of the Texans.
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Arnette known as this previous spring season of soccer “the best version of myself that I’ve ever been.”
His run-ins with the regulation aren’t completely behind him, nevertheless.
Earlier this month, Arnette was ordered to pay a dancer $78,000 after she accused him of hitting her and smashing her head into the bottom at a March 2023 celebration.
The Texans advised ESPN they’ve “no comment” on his authorized historical past.
