{"id":734866,"date":"2026-02-07T03:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734866\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T03:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:48:24","slug":"former-ny-jets-lb-darron-lee-charged-with-first-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734866\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NY Jets LB Darron Lee charged with first-degree murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former New York Jets first-round pick Darron Lee has been charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence after allegedly murdering his girlfriend, per multiple outlets, including\u00a0WTVC<\/a>\u00a0in Chattanooga, Tenn., and FOX17<\/a> in Nashville.<\/p>\n

Per Fox17 Nashville<\/a>, Lee\u2019s girlfriend was found dead Thursday in a home near Ooltewah Elementary School in Hamilton County, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Detectives responded to the scene and said preliminary findings indicated the death was a homicide. Authorities later identified Lee as a suspect and arrested the 31-year-old.<\/p>\n

After a standout career at Ohio State, Gang Green selected the linebacker with the 20th overall pick in the 2016 NFL draft. He ultimately spent three seasons in the green and white. <\/p>\n

All told, Lee appeared in 40 games (36 starts), posting 241 combined tackles (155 solo) and 11 pass deflections while forcing two fumbles.<\/p>\n

He also spent time with the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, and Las Vegas Raiders, last appearing in an NFL game during the 2020 season.<\/p>\n

In his two seasons at Ohio State, Lee played in 28 games while tallying 90 solo tackles, 12.0 sacks, three interceptions, five pass breakups, and three forced fumbles, while earning second-team All-American honors during his sophomore season. <\/p>\n

According to jail records obtained by TMZ<\/a>, Lee is being held without bond and has a court appearance scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New York Jets first-round pick Darron Lee has been charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[105710,7,3228,226,94213,1917,255,2321,2097,6,4404,3231,3916,3234],"class_list":["post-734866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-jets","tag-darron-lee","tag-football","tag-free-content","tag-jets","tag-mike-maccagnan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-jets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkjets","tag-nfl","tag-ny-jets-executives","tag-ny-jets-news","tag-ny-jets-players","tag-standard"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116027307144788752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734866","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=734866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}