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Johnny Manziel's mom, Michelle, arrested in Texas for DWI

by:Alex Byington•about 23 hours•

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The mother of former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel, Michelle Manziel, was arrested on a DWI charge Saturday night in the family’s hometown of Kerrville, Texas, according to TMZ.

Michelle Manziel has been released from Kerrville police custody after posting a $7,500 bond, per TMZ.

Johnny Manziel, a multi-sport star in high school, graduated from Kerrville’s Tivy High in 2011 as the city’s most accomplished and celebrated athlete after being named a Parade All-American and the Texas Mr. Football following a record-breaking 2010 season in which he combined for 77 total touchdowns on the season, including 30 rushing scores.

Johnny Manziel would go onto become a star at Texas A&M, splashing onto the national scene as a redshirt freshman in 2012, which included knocking off top-ranked Alabama in Tuscaloosa en route to becoming the first-ever freshman to win the Heisman Trophy later that year. Manziel was also the first freshman and the fifth player in NCAA history to eclipse 3,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in the same season, winning SEC Freshman of the Year and the Davey O’Brien Award as the top quarterback in the country.

Johnny Manziel infamously battled his own issues with substance abuse, including entering himself into a treatment program during the 2015 offseason prior to his second season in the NFL. Later that season, the Cleveland Browns starting quarterback was demoted to third string after a viral video showed him partying in November 2015. Following a string of other off-field incidents, including several run-ins with police, the Browns cut their former 2014 first-round draft pick in mid-March 2016.

It was a tumultous time for Manziel, who would later admit to using Oxycontin and cocaine while battling depression in the months following his Browns departure — reportedly losing 40 pounds in a nine-month span — according to the Netflix documentary, UNTOLD: Johnny Football. In that same documentary, Manziel revealed his drug use was “a contant, daily thing” at the time, according to Yahoo!, including spending nearly $5 million on a bender after being dianosed with bipolar disorder.

Manziel was later suspended for the first four games of the 2016 season for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy, though he never returned to the NFL.

Johnny Manziel answers if he would ever get into coaching college football

During his time at Texas A&M, Johnny Manziel regularly kept coaches up at night — including his own.

The controversial former Heisman Trophy winner, whose once-promising football career was derailed by public struggles with substance abuse and mental health issues, has recently returned to the public eye following this year’s release of Netflix’s Untold: Johnny Football.

That includes a recent appearance on the Throwbacks podcast with former USC quarterback Matt Leinart and actor Jerry Ferrara of Entourage fame, where he was asked about a potential future in coaching.

And while the thought has certainly crossed his mind on occassion, coaching doesn’t appear to be in Manziel’s future any time soon, thanks in large part to advice from one of his former coaches.

“I don’t know, man. The college aspect, I think, would be fun, but then the recruiting trail and hitting that and doing that is like …,” Manziel said on this week’s Throwbacks podcast. “I talk to Kliff Kingsbury a lot, and I’ve brought it up to him a couple of times, and he’s like, ‘Bro, enjoy f***ing time. … Enjoy your life.’ I could see him when he was at Texas Tech, he was just like, ‘this is a real grind.’ … It’s a different world.”