{"id":755050,"date":"2026-02-16T01:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/755050\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:37:25","slug":"president-trump-pardons-baltimore-ravens-ring-of-honor-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/755050\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump pardons Baltimore Ravens Ring of Honor member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump has pardoned Baltimore Ravens legend Jamal Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s all time rushing yards leader cut a plea deal with the feds back in 2004 after being caught trying to set up a cocaine deal over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005 the Ravens Ring of Honor member was sentenced to four months in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday Trump wiped the offense away by granting Lewis clemency under a full and unconditional pardon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lewis was among five former NFL players to receive a Presidential Pardon. The others were ex-Bills and Broncos running back Travis Henry, Jets icon Joe Klecko, Cowboys alum Nate Newton, and Heisman trophy winner Billy Cannon.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So proud of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jamal31Lewis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Jamal31Lewis<\/a> \u2014 father, entrepreneur, mentor.<\/p>\n<p>Grateful to President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@POTUS<\/a> for pardoning him and affirming a simple truth: accountability and grace can stand together.<\/p>\n<p>To God be the glory!!!<\/p>\n<p>Mercy changes lives. \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wAwkOKPsu6\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/wAwkOKPsu6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alice Marie Johnson (@AliceMarieFree) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AliceMarieFree\/status\/2022735546574082516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 14, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Last year we told you about <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmar2news.com\/sports\/local-sports\/ravens-legend-ed-reed-named-offensive-coordinator-for-sons-georgia-high-school-football-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis helping to coach his son&#8217;s Georgia high school football team<\/a> with fellow Ravens teammate Ed Reed.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump has pardoned Baltimore Ravens legend Jamal Lewis. The team&#8217;s all time rushing yards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[108040,108041,108036,108037,108038,108039,107431,184,117,2282,7,226,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-755050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-alicemariefree","9":"tag-jamal31lewis","10":"tag-jamallewis","11":"tag-joeklecko","12":"tag-potus","13":"tag-realdonaldtrump","14":"tag-alice-marie-johnson","15":"tag-baltimore","16":"tag-baltimore-ravens","17":"tag-baltimoreravens","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-jets","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116077753292303791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755050","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=755050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}