It is eerily quiet in the NFL regarding the situation with Chandler Jones. The only person willing to speak on it is the player himself.
While head coach Josh McDaniels has been silent, Raiders’ Chandler Jones unveiled a concerning twist in his continued absence from NFL action. The 33-year-old defensive end for the Las Vegas Raiders took to social media on Monday night to claim he was forced to go to a mental hospital and got injected with an unknown substance.
“I was taken in by the Las Vegas fire department last week against my will,” he said in a handwritten note posted to X.
“I was injected with I don’t know what. They say it was a court hold and the Las Vegas police put me on it. I hadn’t done anything wrong.
“The police said people were concerned about me because of my posts online.”
Jones stated he was taken to Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas before being transferred to Seven Hills Behavioral Health Hospital in Henderson, Nevada. He says he had to sleep on the floor at one of the facilities as Monday was reportedly the player’s first day out of the hospital.
“This place is NOT a place for high-profile athletes,” he wrote about the hospital. “I’m still confused about what I did wrong,” Jones said, adding that he was “very sane.”
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The defensive end claimed he called Dave Ziegler, the team’s general manager, multiple times but never received a response.
“I called Raiders GM 6 to 7 times asking for help and wondered if he had put me in here, but he never answered. I even left him voicemails,” the All-Pro defense end wrote.
Jones was placed on the non-football illness list last week, ruling him out of playing indefinitely.
Jones began his career with the New England Patriots and played for the Arizona Cardinals before he was traded to the Raiders last year.
Jones finished last season with 4.5 sacks and 38 tackles, well below expectations for the first year of his 3-year, $51 million contract with Vegas.
Jones has 112 total sacks in his pro career, tied for third-most in the league and among the top 30 in NFL history.
