A former NFL participant who’s now a Tennessee highschool soccer coach was arrested in a prostitution sting after he allegedly paid to have intercourse with what he thought was a 16-year-old lady.
Jay Graham, who spent 5 years within the league as a operating again with a number of groups, allegedly responded to a faux grownup escort web site and agreed to pay $120 for intercourse — even after the individual he thought he was speaking to mentioned she was underage.
Graham, 50, was instantly taken into custody on Wednesday when he arrived at a Nashville lodge and handed the money to somebody who was truly an undercover cop, in accordance with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Division.
He’s charged with patronizing prostitution with a minor and solicitation of a minor for aggravated statutory rape. His bond was set at $45,000, in accordance with police.
Graham performed for the College of Tennessee from 1993 to 1996, the place he rushed for over 2,600 yards as an All-SEC operating again.
He had a five-year stint within the NFL enjoying for the Baltimore Ravens, Seattle Seahawks and Inexperienced Bay Packers between 1997 and 2002, ending his profession with 454 yards and two touchdowns.
Graham spent the subsequent twenty years working as a school assistant coach at a number of faculties, profitable a nationwide title with Florida State College in 2013, in accordance with the Tennessean.
He was the operating backs coach at Tennessee in 2012 and once more from 2020 by 2022, however stepped away attributable to psychological well being causes, the paper reported.
Graham then hung out at East Tennessee State as a coordinator earlier than being employed in March by Centennial Centennial Excessive Faculty in Franklin.
Williamson County Colleges district fired Graham from his teaching place and banned him from faculty campus after studying of the allegations on Wednesday, in accordance with the Tennessean. He has solely been suspended in his function as a instructor because the district has a special course of terminating lecturers.
“Legislation enforcement has not indicated that there needs to be any concern for Centennial households,” a district spokesperson informed the Tennessean.
Two different males, ages 46 and 20, have been arrested within the sting operation and are going through related expenses, in accordance with police.
