{"id":14544,"date":"2025-05-01T06:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/14544\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T06:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:43:13","slug":"henry-ruggs-training-for-nfl-comeback-in-prison-says-josh-jacobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/14544\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Ruggs Training For NFL Comeback In Prison, Says Josh Jacobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henry Ruggs
\n Staying NFL Ready Behind Bars
\n … Says Josh Jacobs<\/p>\n

\n Published April 30, 2025 12:34 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Henry Ruggs<\/a> isn’t giving up on his NFL career as he serves his lengthy prison sentence — so says his former teammate, Josh Jacobs<\/a>, who claims the wide receiver is training his ass off behind bars.<\/p>\n

Ruggs is currently serving three to 10 years for a high-speed crash on November 2, 2021, in which he slammed his Corvette into Tina Tintor’s vehicle, killing her and her dog.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old will be eligible for parole in 2026 … and if he does end up getting out, Jacobs said he will look to return to his day job.<\/p>\n

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Jacobs — who played with Ruggs for nearly two seasons on the Las Vegas Raiders — revealed on Wednesday\u2019s episode of “The Pivot” that he’s still in contact with Henry … and provided an update on how he’s spending his time in the slammer.<\/p>\n

“He’s training,” Jacobs said. “They got him training and things like that.”<\/p>\n

“So, I’m like, ‘You come out, man, I don’t know if you will get a chance.’ I’ve been talking to some people for him. They’ve been saying that a couple of teams are willing to give him a chance.”<\/p>\n

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Jacobs, who currently plays for the Packers, also mentioned he was supposed to meet Ruggs at Top Golf just hours before Henry crashed into Tintor’s SUV.<\/p>\n

“We talked ’bout going out that night,” Jacobs said. “It got late and I’m like, ‘Nah, I’m not going to step [out].'”<\/p>\n

Jacobs, 27, said he still gets goosebumps talking about the incident … especially knowing firsthand that Ruggs is a good person.<\/p>\n

“He’s never been in trouble. I’ve never seen him do nothin’ crazy,” Jacobs said.<\/p>\n

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“He was just one of them guys who had a very, very unfortunate situation, and something happened in that decision that he made.”<\/p>\n

The Raiders selected Ruggs with their 12th overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. He secured four touchdowns in 20 games.<\/p>\n

He was released by the Raiders the same day the crash occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry Ruggs Staying NFL Ready Behind Bars … Says Josh Jacobs Published April 30, 2025 12:34 PM PDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,88,6,9,266,4429],"class_list":{"0":"post-14544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-news","13":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114431223818984028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}