Chiefs WR Justyn Ross arrested for criminal property damage

Kansas City Chiefs receiver Justyn Ross was arrested Monday in Shawnee, Kansas, on criminal property damage charges in excess of $25,000, according to Charles Goldman of AtoZ Sports.

Ross was arrested at 2:54 p.m. and booked by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department at 4:27 p.m., per the booking and release report. The Chiefs have yet to comment on the matter.

Ross, 23, is in his second season with the Chiefs after being signed as an undrafted free agent out of Clemson. He spent the entirety of the 2022 season on injured reserve before making the 53-man roster this season. Ross has suited up in all seven games this season, hauling in three receptions for 34 yards.

If you’re a Clemson fan, you probably remember all the promise Ross showed back in 2018, his freshman year. He caught 46 passes for 1,000 yards and nine touchdowns. But it was the College Football Playoff semifinals and finals that introduced him to a nation of college football fans. He caught six passes for 148 yards and two long touchdowns in a semifinal rout of Notre Dame. In Clemson’s national title win over Alabama, Ross caught six passes from Trevor Lawrence for 153 yards and a score.

But a back/neck problem curtailed his career at Clemson. He needed surgery to correct a congenital back condition called Klippel-Feil syndrome. That caused him to miss all of 2020, and scared away teams during the 2022 scouting process.

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