Saints safety Marcus Maye was arrested Thursday morning on a charge of aggravated assault with a firearm, Nick Underhill of NewOrleans.football reports (on Twitter).
Maye’s attorney (via NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero, on Twitter) said his client “vehemently denies” an allegation that stems from a motor vehicle incident. Maye signed a three-year, $22.5MM deal with the Saints this offseason. This arrest, however, marks his second in as many years. Ahead of his final Jets season, Maye was arrested for DUI. Thursday’s arrest could have a considerable impact on Maye’s NFL future.
The Saints are moving to a new safety duo this year, having signed Maye to team with New Orleans native Tyrann Mathieu. The veterans are replacing Malcolm Jenkins, who retired, and Marcus Williams, who signed with the Ravens. Maye’s path toward doing so could become complicated.
Maye, 29, did well to cash in despite suffering a torn Achilles’ tendon in 2021. The Jets kept him off the market via the franchise tag last year, and the sides did not come to an extension agreement. The former second-round pick scored $14.5MM in guarantees from the Saints. Those guarantees would be vulnerable, should the NFL suspend Maye under the personal conduct policy.
New Orleans’ secondary came into the week as one of the NFL’s deepest. The team was confident enough in this group to trade away promising slot cornerback C.J. Gardner-Johnson, who will move to safety with the Eagles.
Man… between him, Kamara, and Lattimore, the saints just might have a culture problem eh?
Sean was smart to walk away.
What’s with the NFL players doing stuff like this?
You hear every time an NFL player does it, there are a couple of thousand guys in the NFL any given season, and these things are alarmingly common even when you’re not strictly speaking of a group of men who are paid millions to be physically violent in the blink of an eye.
Who has time to do this during training camp?
Moronic.
Here’s a 22 million dollar contract, now go do something incredibly stupid and risk it all.
Lol
Lol…. Dirty ass south.
I will never understand why so many NFL players do stuff to risk their entire lives when they have it made if they just do anything but throw away their entire career
People don’t understand these guys because they don’t remember how immature they were in their 20’s and how the majority of them would behave if they suddenly had millions at age 22.
Mike, I could tell you what I wouldn’t be doing and that’s assaulting people with a firearm. I also wouldn’t be risking my money.
hopefully the saints lose a bunch more players this year and end up with a top 10 pick in the 2023 draft, because it belongs to my Philadelphia Eagles!