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Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Chandler Jones alleged Monday night on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the Las Vegas Fire Department forced him to check into a hospital last week against his will.
Jones tweeted a three-page, handwritten testimony of what occurred, as well as a photo of a patient rights document from Seven Hills Hospital:
♛Chandler Jones @chanjones55
First day out but I’m still aligned. pic.twitter.com/AgxZWP7U9e
The four-time Pro Bowler claimed that a group of five to seven people were at his door to put him in an ambulance, where they injected him with something without his consent.
Jones added that the fire department told him the Las Vegas police put him on a “court hold” due to concerns about his recent social media posts.
The 33-year-old Jones went on to claim that hospital personnel “tried to force” him to take medicine and injections.
Jones said he had “no cell phone or communication” when he was taken to the hospital, but he also said he called Raiders general manager Dave Ziegler “six or seven times” to ask for help. However, he said Ziegler did not answer.
The Raiders have made Jones inactive for each of their first three games this season, opting to do so after he criticized the Raiders organization and claimed he wasn’t being allowed to workout at the team facility in a series of since-deleted social media posts earlier this month.
The Raiders have declined to say much regarding Jones’ status to this point. Leading up to their season opener, Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels called it a “personal situation and a private matter.”
After making him inactive for the first two games of the season, the Raiders placed Jones on the non-football illness (NFI) list prior to their Week 3 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
No specifics have been given regarding what illness Jones may be dealing with, but as part of his tweet on Monday, Jones wrote: “I’m still confused on what I did wrong. I’m stuck here. I’m very sane. I’m [too] strong of a person to be mentally broken.”
Jones signed a three-year, $51 million contract with the Raiders last year after splitting his first 10 NFL seasons between the New England Patriots and Arizona Cardinals.
In 15 games last season, Jones finished with only 4.5 sacks, which was a career low for him in a season in which he appeared in at least six games.
Jones has finished with double-digit sacks in a season seven times. He led the league with 17 sacks in 2017 and had a career-high 19 in 2019.
Jones has 112 sacks in 154 career games, which puts him 26th on the NFL’s official career sacks list and 37th on the unofficial list, which takes into account sacks before they became an official stat in 1982.
Without the two-time first-team All-Pro in the lineup, the Raiders are off to a 1-2 start this season. They will look to get back to .500 on Sunday when they go on the road to face the Los Angeles Chargers.
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