A former NFL wide receiver who played on two Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl champion teams was arrested last month and charged with strangling a woman at his Georgia home and preventing her from calling 911.
Court documents say Kadarius Toney, who was traded to the Cleveland Browns last year and released by that team in December, put his hand around the woman’s throat on January 14, squeezing “with enough force to cause her to be unable to breath,” TMZ reported.
Toney reportedly took the woman’s phone during the assault so she couldn’t call for help.
Warrants were issued for the 26-year-old’s arrest for aggravated assault-strangulation and obstruction a 911 call the next day, and he was booked into the Douglas County jail on February 6, The Associated Press reported. The warrants say red marks were visible on the woman’s neck, and she had hemorrhaging in her eyes.
Toney was released the same day he was arrested on a $50,000 bond.
Toney played college football with the University of Florida before being drafted by the New York Giants, who traded him to the Chiefs midway through his injury-plagued second season. He played mostly on special teams for the Super Bowl champions, although he was listed as inactive for the team’s second championship in 2024.
The Chiefs released him in August, and he signed with the Browns, but his performance was lackluster, and he was released in December.
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[Featured image: FILE – Cleveland Browns wide receiver Kadarius Toney (87) warms up before an NFL football game, Nov. 17, 2024, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Tyler Kaufman, File)]
