A Georgia High School Football Hall of Famer and former NFL running back is one of five former players to receive a presidential pardon on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Jamal Lewis, who played for the Baltimore Ravens<\/a> and Cleveland Browns<\/a> and was born in Atlanta, was pardoned along with Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Travis Henry and Billy Cannon, according to “White House Pardon Czar<\/a>” Alice Marie Johnson.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n “As football reminds us, excellence is built on grit, grace, and the courage to rise again. So is our nation,” Johnson said in a Feb. 12 post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Georgia High School Football Hall of Famer and former NFL running back is one of five former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[107431,223,184,117,2282,90196,54,7,22831,88988,13704,6,107438,169,107433],"class_list":{"0":"post-755115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-alice-marie-johnson","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-baltimore","11":"tag-baltimore-ravens","12":"tag-baltimoreravens","13":"tag-billy-cannon","14":"tag-cleveland-browns","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-jamal-lewis","17":"tag-joe-klecko","18":"tag-nate-newton","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-presidential-pardon","21":"tag-ravens","22":"tag-travis-henry"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116077980758614056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755115","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=755115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}