Dolphins Release Chad Johnson

NFL — 12 August 2012

The line, “It was all good just a week ago” has never been more true.

Last week, Chad Johnson was the star of HBO’s “Hard Knocks” for the Miami Dolphins. Today, he finds himself on CareerBuilder and Monster looking for work as the Dolphins cut him amid his domestic violence arrest.

The unfortunate thing is that we don’t even know all the details and the police report makes it seem as if his wife was the aggressor. Either way, I think it will be tough for Chad to latch on with another team.

As the Miami Dolphins took the field for practice Sunday, Chad Johnson was getting out of jail.

Hours later, he was out of work.

The Dolphins terminated the six-time Pro Bowl receiver’s contract about 24 hours after he was arrested in a domestic battery case involving his wife.

Johnson had been released from jail on $2,500 bond earlier Sunday after his wife accused him of head-butting her during an argument in front of their home. Johnson was charged with simple domestic battery, a misdemeanor.

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Joseph
August 13, 2012 at 12:36 pm

I bet Johnson gets on somewhere else. There are a lot of teams that need a wide out right now. The Bengals don’t even really have anyone to line up across from Green. As of right now it will be ‘by comittee’ Call me an idiot, but I wouldn’t be mad at Johnson winding up back in Cincy. Not that this is even a remote possibility.

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- Kevin Burke
  August 14, 2012 at 12:49 am
  
  This is truly his first off the field issue since being in the NFL, but he’ll be treated by potential suitors as if he’s a repeat offender and malcontent.
  
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Joseph
August 15, 2012 at 9:08 am

And not that domestic violence is OK, even one time. But I don’t understand how they can write off a whole career on one incident. If he was a white man in a suit at a Fortune 500 he’d get a vacation and some counseling and be right back on his J-O…

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