The shocking image of a Georgia football player’s car ending up at the doorstep of a residential neighborhood has emerged after the Bulldog, Marques Easley, was suspended by the team indefinitely.
Easley was one of a pair of Georgia football stars suspended indefinitely by head coach Kirby Smart on Thursday, alongside NiTareon ‘Nitro’ Tuggle.
Per the Athens Banner-Herald, Easley’s incident took place Monday night in Watkinsville, Georgia, about 20 minutes from campus.
Easley’s white Dodge Challenger reportedly lost control and left the roadway, where it hit a power distribution box. Easley also struck two other cars while it spun out of control.
Tuggle was arrested on Thursday morning by Athens-Clarke County Police on misdemeanor charges, per UGASports.com. The rising sophomore was booked into the county jail just before 2:00am and was released an hour later after posting a cash bond of just $20.
Tuggle and Easley are the latest players within the program to be arrested for driving-related incidents.
The image of a Georgia football player’s car ending up in a neighborhood has emerged
Georgia receiver Nitro Tuggle has been arrested for alleged reckless driving and speeding
Between January 2023 and July 2024, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed that players within the Georgia football program were involved in 24 driving-related incidents. Multiple arrests, including these two, have happened since the publishing of that report.
A microscope has been placed on the program ever since the deaths of lineman Devin Willock and recruiting analyst Chandler LeCroy the night after the Bulldogs were celebrating winning the national championship for the 2022 season.
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart has previously maintained that he and his colleagues are working to solve this problem, but last year rejected the idea that different team policies could have prevented the fatalities.
‘No policy or lack thereof policy caused this accident,’ Smart told the Banner-Herald in 2023 – in reaction to a different driving incident involving one of his players.
Easley only appeared in two games as a freshman for the Bulldogs with one of the deepest rosters in college football.
