Rozier was only an NFL player for six games. He was let go from the St. Louis Cardinals after being suspected of drug abuse. After being let go from the team, Rozier joined a black supremacist religious group that required its members to murder white people and return their body parts to the cult’s leader. Rozier admitted to murdering seven people, and he received a 10 year prison sentence after making a deal to testify against the cult leader.

Wright’s NFL career includes a year played with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On August 29, 2012 Wright was arrested in connection with home invasions and sexual assaults that took place in Sacramento, California. On November 30, 2012 he was found guilty of 19 charges and has been sentenced to 234 years and eight months in prison.

Drafted first of the fifth-round in a 1999 NFL draft, Collins appeared to have a great future ahead of him in the NFL. After playing only eight games in the 1999 season, he had 414 yards and 2 touchdowns. Sadly, on December 16, 1999, Collins broke into a home of a married woman in Florida that he had met at the gym. Admitting to the crime, Collins said he only wanted to watch her sleep. Collins was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was released on May 1, 2013

Born on July 24, 1987, Belcher was an exceptional athlete who eventually played for the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL. On December 1, 2012, Belcher shot and killed Cassandra Perkins, the mother of his three month old daughter. After the murder, Belcher drove to visit his coach and the team’s general manager. There he was quoted as saying that he ‘was not able to get enough help.’ Belcher then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.

In one of the most shocking crimes committed by an NFL player, Oakland Raider defensive tackle, Dan Russell, along with two other companions, videotaped themselves as they brutally attacked and raped a woman from Pennsylvania. This attack, which allegedly took place over the course of five hours, was alleged to have been done after the victim had been slipped a date rape drug. After police raided the home where the attack took place. they seized the videotape of the attack. Darrell was arrested and charged with a crime. However, prosecutors later dropped the case believing that the jury would not convict him. Three years after this incident, Russell died in a fatal car accident.

This cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys was involved in a hit-and-run on January 14, 2003. Two people were killed in this incident. As a result, Goodrich served eight years in prison on two counts of criminally negligent homicide. He was released from prison on October 5, 2011.

This Carolina Panthers wide receiver had a promising career towards the latter part of the 90’s. However, all of that disappeared when he hired a friend to murder Cherica Adams, the woman who was pregnant with his child. Adams died, but the child survived. Carruth became a fugitive and was later captured hiding in the trunk of his car. He was charged with murder and received an 18 to 25 year prison sentence.

Playing as a linebacker from 1975 to 1980 with the Dallas Cowboys, Henderson had a career that included a visit to the Pro Bowl and 3 Super Bowl victories. Henderson was convicted of smoking cocaine with two teenage girls and exchanging drugs for consensual sex. Henderson decided to plea no contest to the charges and had eight months in a rehab center and 28 months in prison.

n one of the most televised criminal court proceedings, OJ Simpson, whose career includes playing for the Buffalo Bills and the San Francisco 49ers, was accused of kidnapping and the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. On October 3, 1998, a jury found him not guilty of the two murders.