The NFL definitely has a problem with the number of their players that end up getting arrested, but in September the league and its players achieved a bit of a milestone.
For the entire month of September, no players in the NFL were arrested, something that is a very rare occurrence indeed according to Mike Rosenberg.
NFL just finished a calendar month without any player arrests reported. That hadn't happened in more than 6 years.
— Mike Rosenberg (@RosenbergMerc) October 1, 2015
The league's arrest record makes for particularly worrying reading when put in further context by a bit more digging into the numbers, again from Rosenberg.
And September was the first time in 15 years that the NFL went a calendar month *during the season* without a player arrest.
— Mike Rosenberg (@RosenbergMerc) October 1, 2015
Since Roger Goodell became commissioner of the league, this is only the second time that the were no arrests in a calendar month, the other being July 2009, which fell in the offseason.
While that's not a great record, Yahoo Sports point out that a study by the University of Texas-Dallas showed that the NFL's arrest figures were actually lower than the average for American males aged 20-39.
However, publicity surrounding the arrests of stars like Aaron Hernandez (on a murder charge) and Ray Rice have added to the public perception that the sport has a problem surrounding player behaviour and crime.
Via Yahoo
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