{"id":23374,"date":"2017-07-05T17:21:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=23374"},"modified":"2021-03-17T20:37:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:37:38","slug":"cowboys-linebacker-damien-wilson-arrested-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/07\/05\/cowboys-linebacker-damien-wilson-arrested-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys Linebacker Damien Wilson Arrested for Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the biggest concerns for NFL teams in the off-season is in regards to players potentially running afoul of the law. Those concerns came to the forefront for the Dallas Cowboys Wednesday as news broke that linebacker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WilsDa02.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Damien Wilson<\/a><\/strong> was arrested the previous night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Damien Wilson, slated to be a starting LB for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cowboys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Cowboys<\/a>, charged with two counts of aggravated assault <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o8ZIkRwGCi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/o8ZIkRwGCi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/882642728248627201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Dallas Cowboys Linebacker Damien Wilson Arrested for Assault<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>More specifically, police in Frisco, TX took Wilson into custody and charged him with two counts of felonious aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. It stems from an incident at Toyota Stadium during a &#8220;Freedom Fest&#8221; Independence Day fireworks display. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LynnanneFOX4\/status\/882686803505033216\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilson apparently backed his truck into a woman<\/a> in the stadium parking lot, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2017\/07\/05\/dallas-cowboys-linebacker-arrested-aggravated-assault-charge\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">then brandished a rifle at another man<\/a> in the area, per the <a href=\"http:\/\/friscopd.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frisco Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities took Wilson to the Frisco Detention Center afterwards, where he later posted $10,000 bond for each of the charges. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacefirm.com\/faq\/assault-deadly-weapon.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to the Texas Penal Code<\/a>, the offense is a second-degree felony which could result in a state prison sentence of two to 20 years if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys drafted Wilson in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL Draft, taking him with the 127th overall pick. He saw limited time during his rookie season, appearing in all 16 games but making no starts and finishing with just four tackles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/teams\/dal\/2016.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A year later<\/a>, his role in the Dallas linebacking corps expanded. Wilson once again played in every game but made five starts, registered half a sack, and finished third among Cowboys linebackers with 23 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson originally played collegiately at Alcorn State University, but after his freshman year he transferred to Jones County Junior College in Mississippi. After excelling as a safety, he later moved to Minnesota where the coaching staff converted him to linebacker. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/schools\/minnesota\/2014.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">During his senior season<\/a>, he led the Gophers in tackles (110), tackles for loss (9.5) and sacks (4.0) en route to All-Big Ten honors.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LynnanneFOX4\/status\/882639506654081024\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cowboys released the following statement<\/a>, per a team spokesperson:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are aware of the situation and we are in the process of gathering information. We will not have a comment at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/623994648\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 71.548822% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/623994648?et=FBzgDBiXR8BGqNv-5HUZ_w&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=vG47IGZGJwHn3u-KODUEPNAqKd8aSdWNMtI4vYorsEo=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson was arrested Tuesday night and charged with two counts of felony assault stemming from an incident in Frisco, TX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":23376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,36],"tags":[7422,2736],"class_list":["post-23374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cowboys","category-nfl-news","tag-dallas-cowboys-news","tag-damien-wilson"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}