Jonathan Wilhite intercepts a pass in front of Washington Redskins
wide receiver D.J. Hackett (18) for a touchdown during the second
half of a preseason NFL football game, Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, in
Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
If you’re like me and you were following the Patriots injury reports all week, you were a little surprised to see Jonathan Wilhite listed among the inactives on Sunday morning. Belichick told reporters after the game that Wilhite was injured on Sunday morning.
It turns out, Wilhite was injured when he was a victim of a home invasion early Sunday morning. Shalise Manza Young of the Providence Journal broke the story on Monday that a Patriots player was involved in a police incident early Sunday morning.
Manza Young speculated that the player was Wilhite, and the Boston Globe later confirmed it.
Wilhite worked out with the training staff prior to Sunday’s game, but was a late addition to the inactive list. His agent told the Boston Globe that the injury was not serious. Neither the team nor the agent was willing to discuss the reported home invasion or exactly how Wilhite was injured.
Just speculating, but it may have been a case of the player just being too shaken up to play.
Wilhite is expected to be back in action next week, and was seen in the locker room Monday showing no obvious signs of injury.
Wilhite is the third NFL player to have an incident like this happen since the start of the season. Plaxico Burress is spending the next two years in prison for carrying a loaded weapon, but the more incidents like this happen the more you begin to understand why NFL players feel the need to arm themselves.
Like it or not, NFL players are targets.
Scary.
Hopefully Wilhite is OK, both physically and emotionally. And hopefully the police catch the person or persons responsible, and quickly.
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