53 Players With No Place in the National Football League: Part III: The Wide Receivers

WR #1:  Santonio Holmes, New York Jets team captain and starter

Should be banned for:  Drug past and 2008 marijuana arrest, 2006 domestic violence incident, 2010 nightclub violence incident

Here's a real charmer.  The guy basically admits that he was selling drugs as a teen, though he claims his mother and his hopes to play in the NFL turned his life around.

So he gets into one domestic violence scrape, weeks after another police incident, gets nailed for marijuana by the cops in 2008, and has a lawsuit pending from a 2010 nightclub violence incident with another woman.

And this guy was a Super Bowl MVP??  No thank you.  Fits in right well with Rothlesberger, who threw him the game-winning touchdown pass in Super Bowl XLIII.

WR #2:  Chad Ochocinco/Johnson, disqualified from Miami Dolphins in 2012 for domestic abuse/ineffectiveness

Should be banned for:  Making a mockery of the league and headbutting his wife.

The headbutt should be the end-game, but one cannot overstate how much of a mockery of the game Chad (and several other wide-receivers (looking at you, Terrell!!)) has made the NFL.

This guy was a walking reality show, basically disgracing himself at almost every conceivable turn, including stealing a paycheck in New England, of all places, before finally putting the nail in it all this summer when he stood accused of headbutting his wife, to which the Miami Dolphins promptly showed his ass out the door.

WR #3:  Kenny Britt, currently injured on the Tennessee Titans

Should be banned for:  No fewer than seven run-ins with the law since January 15, 2010.

And thanks to the San Diego Union Tribune, whose NFL arrest database will be used liberally here.

This isn't a case of one major incident.  It's the accumulation of no fewer than seven incidents with the police since 2010:

• 1/15/2010:  Three traffic warrants.  Paid $865 to resolve them, and was released.
• 8/4/2010:  Driving on a revoked license, and pulled over for too dark of tinting.
• 2/9/2011:  Theft warrant, as he was seen not to pay bail bondsmen to cover a bail bond for a friend of his arrested.  Covered the bond, and the situation was resolved.
• 4/12/2011:  Car chase, felony eluding of an officer dropped to traffic violations.  
• 6/8/2011:  One day after resolving the 4/12/2011 situation, he's arrested again for two counts of resisting arrest as police find a marijuana cigar on him.
• 6/29/2011:  Surrenders to police for false statements on a driver's license application.
• 7/20/2012:  Arrested for DUI at a checkpoint of Fort Campbell Army Base.

He has an eighth incident from his rookie season in 2009, and at least two visits to the Commissioner's Office.

WR #4:  Donte Stallworth, New England Patriots

Should be banned for:   Vehicular Manslaughter Under the Influence of Alcohol after a 2007 visit to the Substance Abuse Program.

Almost the opposite of Britt, Stallworth killed a man on March 14, 2009, hitting him while having a Blood Alcohol Content of .126.  (San Diego Union Tribune list)

Suspended "indefinitely" (more like one year) for vehicular murder.  Has played for two teams since, and was signed by the Patriots in March, 2012.

Dishonorable Mention:  Plaxico Burress, Free Agent

Vincent Jackson of the Buccaneers is certainly close, if not there.