More Details on Six Kentucky Football Players Arrested

by:Nick Roush•08/19/21•

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Thursday evening six Kentucky football players were charged with first degree burglary: Reuben “RJ” Adams, Robert “Jutahn” McClain, Andru Phillips, Earnest Sanders IV, Devito “Vito” Tisdale and Joel Williams. Tisdale received an additional charge of wanton endangerment for bringing a firearm to the incident that took place in March.

The news release from Lexington police states three members of the football attended a private party, March 6. They were asked to leave, then returned with three others and forced their way into the residence.

Kentucky Sports Radio’s Matt Jones paints a clearer picture of the situation, describing it as a fight between an on-campus fraternity and members of the football team.

There is a lot more to the UK Football story. It all stems from a fight at a UK fraternity party off-campus.

This happened last Spring and UK investigated it and the players were cleared to return to the team.

I will have more on this later tonight
— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) August 19, 2021

As I understand it, there was a fight at the frat party between some students and the UK Football players

The players were told to leave the party after the fight and did. When they returned and entered back in, that became the basis for the burglary charge
— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) August 19, 2021

As many of you know, I have been harsh in my comments about various UK coaches/players and off the field issues

There is more to this story than is simply in release and while it is newsworthy, I would caution folks to wait for more information to come out before final judgment
— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) August 19, 2021

Part of the reason this has taken so long to come out is I think there was a genuine split among Lexington police as whether to charge….at one point I didn’t think there would be any charges.

But an investigator did decide to charge..I would bet a few will be dismissed soon
— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) August 19, 2021

During Tuesday’s football practice that was open to members of the media, this reporter can recall seeing five of the six in action. The University of Kentucky and Mark Stoops each released statements shortly after the news broke.