{"id":2005933,"date":"2023-08-19T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-star-jimmy-graham-hospitalized-days-before-comeback-from-year-long-absence\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T21:15:17","slug":"nfl-star-jimmy-graham-hospitalized-days-before-comeback-from-year-long-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-star-jimmy-graham-hospitalized-days-before-comeback-from-year-long-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL star Jimmy Graham hospitalized before comeback from year-long absence."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnfl-star-jimmy-graham-hospitalized-days-before-comeback-from-year-long-absence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2005933&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former NFL All-Pro Tight End Jimmy \u200bGraham Hospitalized Days Before Comeback from Year-Long Absence<\/h2>\n<p>Former\u200b NFL All-Pro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/super-bowl-lv-all-the-best-commercials\/\" title=\"Super Bowl LV: All The Best Commercials\">tight end<\/a> Jimmy Graham was taken into custody and subsequently sent to the hospital after an incident with police.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/08\/19\/jimmy-graham-arrested-new-orleans-saints-wandering-in-traffic-resisting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a>, law enforcement had been called about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-star-jimmy-graham-hospitalized-days-before-comeback-from-year-long-absence\/\" title=\"NFL star Jimmy Graham hospitalized before comeback from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennis-serena-advances-in-toronto-joins-rybakina-and-halep-in-second-round\/\" title=\"Tennis-Serena advances in Toronto, joins Rybakina and Halep in second round\">year-long absence<\/a>.&#8221;>suspicious person \u2064acting erratically<\/a> at a Southern California resort\u200b on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After\u2064 seeing Graham wandering in the streets, police tried to\u2063 rein in the 6-foot-7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nigerian-player-gets-chance-make-nfl-discovering-football-youtube-just-5-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a> star, but allegedly met with resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Graham was \u200dtaken into custody on a pair of misdemeanor charges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Resisting, delaying and obstructing a police officer<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u2064 36-year-old tight end \u200cwas ultimately released \u2014 though the incident is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>After TMZ\u2063 broke the\u200d news \u200cthat\u200d Graham had \u200dbeen arrested, his team, the New \u2063Orleans Saints, \u200creleased a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/statement-from-new-orleans-saints-8-19-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> explaining that Graham was dealing with \u200b\u201ca medical episode\u201d that ultimately led to him being taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>\u201cNew Orleans Saints tight end Jimmy Graham experienced a medical episode last evening,\u200c which resulted in\u2063 him\u200d becoming disoriented,\u201d the statement read. \u201cHe was taken\u200c into custody by local authorities and transported to a local hospital for evaluation for\u2063 what Dr. John Amoss\u200c believes to be\u2064 a likely seizure and spent the night under medical \u2064supervision and testing.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cAmoss met Graham at the hospital and is\u2064 overseeing his care at this time. He was released this morning and is with the team as\u2064 they continue preparations\u2062 for Sunday\u2019s game against the Los Angeles \u200bChargers.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While it\u2019s unclear whether Graham was going\u200d to play against the Chargers in their preseason tilt (it\u2019s not uncommon\u2064 for \u2063veterans to often skip the \u2062rigors of the preseason), this \u2064is\u2062 still\u2062 a notable stumble in the tight end\u2019s return to the league.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL regular season begins Sept. 7, so there are only a\u2064 few \u200cweeks for Graham to get up to \u200cspeed after\u2063 missing the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Graham\u2019s roster spot is not guaranteed, so every rep would\u2019ve mattered.<\/p>\n<p>This\u200b setback for Graham is particularly noteworthy, given the grand way he was returning to\u200d the Saints \u2014 the same team that had taken him in \u200dthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-best-moment-nfl-draft-reminds-world-young-men-need-fathers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL Draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Graham went unsigned and did\u2063 not play in 2022, and is\u2064 hoping to recapture the same magic he had in New Orleans during his first stint.<\/p>\n<p>The mammoth tight end made the Pro Bowl in three of\u2064 his first five \u200cseasons on the Saints, including an All-Pro berth in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He\u200c immediately clicked and thrived with future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/video-sick-marketing-ploy-everyone-convinced-nfl-legend-struck-lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drew Brees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that early success, Graham has only made\u200d the Pro Bowl twice in the ensuing seven seasons, including none since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>While Brees won\u2019t be there to sling the football to Graham this go-around, there was still some positive momentum building toward his return to familiar\u200d haunts.<\/p>\n<p>Now that momentum has been derailed, as Graham appears to be dealing with a much more serious issue\u200b than an NFL roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, \u200dthis isn\u2019t the first time Graham has been involved in\u2064 a very serious health issue.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/10009711-bears-jimmy-graham-says-he-was-basically-forced-into-getting-the-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bleacher Report<\/a>, back in 2021, Graham complained that he was \u201cbasically forced\u201d into getting a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Graham was taken in \u200cthe third round of the 2010 NFL draft by the Saints after \u200da productive career at the University of Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nfl-star-jimmy-graham-hospitalized-days-comeback-year-long-absence\/\">NFL Star Jimmy Graham Hospitalized Days Before\u2063 Comeback from Year-Long Absence<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The\u2062 Western \u2063Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL star Jimmy Graham was apprehended and later hospitalized following an altercation with police. TMZ reported that authorities were alerted to a disturbance caused by an erratic individual at a Southern California resort. When officers attempted to control the situation, they encountered Graham wandering the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":2005934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}