Another UGA player arrested; facing DUI charge

• Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterMay 10, 2023, 01:14 PM ET

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The Georgia football team’s rough offseason continued when pass receiver De’Nylon Morrissette was detained on multiple driving-related charges– including driving under the influence of drugs– simply after 3:30 a.m. Monday.Morrissette, a sophomore who played in 11 games last season as a reserve, likewise deals with charges of driving too fast for conditions, following too carefully and Class D license limitations of not driving in between midnight and 5 a.m., according to the Oconee County (Georgia )Sheriff’s Department.Jail records show that Morrissette was scheduled at 10:10 a.m. and released at 11:55 a.m. on bonds that totaled$1,721. Editor’s Picks 2 Associated ESPN has put in a request to Georgia athletic department officials for comment.Morrissette is the 4th member of the 2022 Georgia

football team to be apprehended given that the Bulldogs won their 2nd straight championship game. Three of those arrests involved driving-related charges.Defensive deal with Jalen Carter, who was chosen ninth overall in the NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, turned himself in to authorities on March 2 after a warrant was provided for his arrest. He was charged for racing and careless driving in relation to a Jan. 16 crash that resulted in the deaths of Georgia offensive lineman Devin Willock and recruiting staff member Chandler LeCroy, who was driving the other car at the time of the crash.Police said LeCroy was taking a trip about 104 miles per hour soon before the crash, and a police investigation figured out that LeCroy and Carter were both”running their lorries in a manner

consistent with racing.” Carter pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 12 months of probation and ordered to pay a$ 1,000 fine and carry out 50 hours of neighborhood service.Five days before the fatal January crash that took the lives of Willock and LeCroy, linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson was also charged with racing and reckless driving. Dumas pleaded guilty to careless driving, and the racing charge was

dismissed.Later in January, receiver Rara Thomas, who transferred from Mississippi State, was apprehended and charged with felony false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery/family violence. The false imprisonment charge was dismissed, and Thomas entered a pretrial diversion program. Thomas did not play on offense in the Bulldogs’ spring game, and coach Kirby Smart stated Thomas had “some things he needed to deal with. “During spring practice, Smart said education programs are in location at Georgia about the threats associated with driving however that education wasn’t enough.”You need to do a terrific job of making sure your players understand the dangers and dangers that are out there with cars, specifically nowadays, that go truly

fast,” Smart said.”You have actually got to be exceptionally cautious.”