APSam Hurd was not a big name in pro football, but he sure sounds like a big name in the Chicago drug world.
The details of his arrest Thursday reveal a man deep into drug trafficking. Playing in the NFL was Sam Hurd’s side job.
From a pop culture perspective, Hurd’s story plays out like a story arc on The Wire or a Ghostface Killah song.
Here are some details from the criminal complaint against Hurd, available publicly.
1. Hurd told an undercover agent Wednesday night that he was looking to buy ”5 to 10 kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana per week for distribution in the Chicago area.”
2. Hurd negotiated to pay $25,000 per kilogram for the cocaine and $450 per pound of the weed. So Hurd had the cash flow to pay for $575,000-$700,000 worth of drugs per week. That’s well over $2 million per month. (We’ll let you imagine how much he was bringing in or planning to bring in.)
3. The money Hurd was willing to spend was on top of what he was already purchasing elsewhere. Hurd told the informant that he currently distributed ”four kilograms of cocaine per week in the Chicago area, but that the supplier could not supply him with enough quantity.”
Hurd was trying to take his operation to another level.
4. Hurd first came on the police’s radar in July. After receiving a tip, police found a man with a bag filled with $88,000 in a canvas bag. The man said the money and car belonged to Hurd. It was Hurd’s car, and the receiver still attempted to get the money back.
This should have raised a red flag, but Hurd was too foolish or in too deep to realize he needed to slow down.
5. Hurd was looking for Mexican cell phones, because he believed authorities didn’t have the ability to track them.
6. This wasn’t a small operation. Hurd only dealt with “high level” deals; a co-conspirator handled more day-to-day stuff. Hurd allegedly had business as far away as California and had a fleet of vehicles.
We suspect this story is only getting started, and it’s one that could get increasingly uncomfortable for the NFL. If Twitter is any indication, it’s already big news.
Sam Hurd is the fifth-highest trending topic in the country right now.
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Typical loser Bear.GO PACK GO!!!
As a Cowboys fan… just… just… wow.
Other players possibly implicated too?
But will he play this weekend against Seattle or will he be suspended without due process? This is an outrage. I’m calling Jackie Chiles.
What %of all that does his agent get?
In other countries he would be executed. The Bears need to release him and he needs to be banned from professional sports forever ( If the accusations are true).
Just putting a worse light on Chi-Town than was already there. Holy crap…a drug kingpin in the NFL. Wow.
Small world. I setup email on his phone last year. Cool dude.
I’m SURPRIZED you people got off the fire Raheem Morris bandwagon? He’s NOT getting fired
I hope HURD complied with the Rooney Rule before hiring someone to sell his drugs.
what a idiot he had the chance to make legal money and feel good about him self but instead this dummy is dealing dope i hope he get 20+ years for this act what a dumbass
The just lost to Tim Tebow, God must have summoned him!
It was nice not knowing ya.
Sam “F whatcha” Hurd
$450 a pound for weed? That must be some serious ditch weed he is selling.
Apparently there is a list of double digit NFL players that Hurd supplied too…
I bet ‘how long does cocaine stay in your system’ is the #1 trending topic on NFL players iPhones
Wow! I never took him for a drug dealing piece of dirt…
And boom goes the dynamite.
A dallas cowboy mixed in with the drug scene? That’s weird
He’s just trying to end all those complaints about the Soldier Field grass.
Couple of questions
1) Is this related in any way shape or form to the Jerome Simpson case? (a case that seems to have gone completely quiet – presumably b/c there were bigger fish to fry)
2) Are there other players or NFL-related people involved directly or indirectly? There’s a huge pool of people with means and connections that he’d certainly have access to. How big is this thing given the volumes involved?
3) If 2 is true, just how many players/teams does this reach into? What will the impact me? How in the world can the NFL combat it if it’s true?
4) Why is cocaine measured using the metric system but marijuana is not? I mean you’d think they’d have to gone one standard by now. What’s up with that?
-QG
daaaayyyyyyyymmmmmm Saaaaaaamm!!!
10,000 freaking grams a week of blow?!?! Holy Schmolly!
The Bears should get rid of all of these ex-Dallas Cowboys ‘rejects’ – Hurd, Barber, and Williams.
… and i thought it was dumb when Dallas did not resign him.
Sam “Scarface” Hurd! Insane level of bad judgment and stupidity.
You would think anonymity would be something he would seek, not the exact opposite.
it literally does sound like this dude was in the NFL just to make the money to keep the drugs flowing…wow. this one ‘ought to get real interesting
side note- ghostface is some GOOD stuff…nice
How stupid do you have to be to not have someone else taking the fall for you if you’re putting up the money? These’s no reason for him to be seen at all. Oh well, he gets what he deserves here.
Scratch that. At $450 a pound, his grass is probably worse than the Soldier Firld grass.
Jesus… when he played in Dallas he never struck me as someone smart enough to pull something like this off. I guess he wasn’t.
/career
I suddenly have the urge to watch New Jack City for some reason…
450 a p? hot damnnn
Sam Hurd balls hard
How about the reports that the government now has a double-digit list of nfl players who were clients
Ay yay yay
Yeah but I bet he threw some sick parties
Prop Joe is flabbergasted.
It’s one thing, to sell drugs as your making millions per year playing in the NFL. But to be the head of a large drug ring and to be doing such incriminating things first hand, is just idiotic. If anything, he should have been using his NFL career as a money laundering operation, at which case he would have to be squeaky clean on paper. He should have had at least 5 different guys directly below him, doing the dirty work.
Just stupid, stupid stupid. Nothing worse than a stupid criminal. On a side note, he was bringing in, if he was selling wholesale, anywhere between 3-4 million a week. Making more of the marijuana of course. Moving 1000 lbs a week is insane.
Never thought being an NFL player would be a players lowest paying job.
Sam Hurd looks over at Johnny Jolly and says, “Child, please.”
Baller!
A kilo is 1000 grams …. easy to remember
Sam Hurd = Human Garbage.
He’s just trying to make a dollar out of $0.15. Got that from some rap song.
If only he would have taken that entrepreneurial spirit into a legal industry. Too bad, even a player like him should be able to store away enough for a nice investment in something he could legitimately grow like a retail franchise. Good money in that once you own a few.
I guess the NFL doesn’t pay to well.
That’s gangster!
It’s been reported that Marion Barber sent Hurd a muffin basket as a token of appreciation.
I’ll bet you he was stupid enough to ask the “undercover agent” if he was a cop and then believe him when he said no.
Desk jockey Goodope will issue a $100 fine for violating the personal conduct code. Hurdygurdy plans to appeal. Barbarino silent.
$450 a pound? Sign me up
co-conspirator?
Isn’t that inherent in the term “conspirator”? One cannot conspire with one’s self!
That said……..what a dumbass!
First offense? $7,500 fine….
Omar (Roger Goodell) coming
You have showed your love in the past for The Wire, Mr. Rosenthal. The guy is a fool, and a fool and his money will soon part.
Making at minimum $600K, more than that because he has been in the league 6 years, he has made well over $1 million over the course of his career. To throw that away for drugs is ridiculous. I don’t know whether to blame greed or a failure to get away from “friends in low places”, but either one is his fault and he will soon pay for it. Dearly.
“I wish I could tell you that Sam Hurd fought the good fight, and the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that – but prison is no fairy-tale world”
He will just deny taking steroids and say that he bought something at GNC…oh wait…
There’s a missing fact here – did Jerry Jones get Hurd and his associates to pay to be the “Official Cocaine of the Dallas Cowboys”??
Former cowboys played being accused for handling drugs, I can’t believe it! Lol typical cowboys!
AINT NOTHIN BUT A GANGSTA PARTY
Irvin told Jerry to cut him cause he was going to be trouble..
WOW!
…… I used to like you as a player in Dallas Mr. Don Hurd.
$450/pound of weed? That’s either a wal-mart blowout level deal or Hurd isn’t exactly keen on quality..
I wonder if Barber knew?
When will these players learn. There making all this money and still doing dumb things to get themselves in trouble.
First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the NFC Wild Card.
He’s not gonna get Michael Vick or Plaxico Burress-like jail time. More like Rae Carruth-like jail time…
Say hello to Travis Henry for me.
5,4,3,2,1 for the comments that ALL athletes are criminals.
Somehow this is Martz’s fault.
At his age he doesn’t have too many years left in the NFL so you gotta have some kind of job to fall back on
LOL
Say hello to my little friend………….
Well at least we all know he was a prudent shopper buying in bulk. $450 for pound of pot? Yes please.
Not cool bro. Smh
670 The Score in Chicago is reporting that law enforcement (didn’t specify which branch) has a ‘list of NFL players whom Hurd supplied drugs to.’
This will not end well for seemingly a LOT of people.
What a BOSS….er….I mean…..what a disgusting, deplorable member of society.
The important thing we PFT readers should take away from this article is that Ggreg listens to Wu-Tang.
TIGERSTYLE!
Sounds like business was good. That’s the entrepreneurial spirit.
The only difference between him and Congress is: he’s going to jail.
Sam Hurd aka Tony Montana
Too bad he didn’t hustle this much on the football field.
He wasn’t exactly competing on the field so why not take on the world of a drug lord. Entrepreneur
Oh those NFL “partners” are such business savvy and respectable people. Shame on the owners for not considering these players worthy of being considered “partners”
This would be a great spin off plot for next year’s season of Breaking Bad.
Man I love that show.
Everyone wants to be a Kingpin… until they get caught.
Sam Hurd’s coming.
No one is going to want ANY part of this. His teammates are already qualifying their comments with the requisite ” Seemed nice…never hung out with him.”
Here is Roy Williams quote,”It’s a situation that I don’t want anyone to be in, especially a close friend or a teammate I’ve been playing with now four or five years now. Especially a guy from Texas, with a wife and daughter. It’s tough for me, just cause I’m not into drugs or anything like that.”
This story has the potential to get really big really fast.
Stick a fork in him.
$450 a pound?
Dude was selling Mexi ditch weed. Off with his head!
I don’t know will this be a fine in the making? Probably not does not compare to lets say, wrong color shoes, not talking to the press, personal fouls or letting a QB go back in after a hit to the head. God-del and his cronies will have to think long and hard on this one, after all due process comes into play. I
When Sam figures out how much time he can get is where “Stop Snitchin’” goes wrong. lol Trust, who ever was his previous supplier is sweating bullets right about now. No plan B? That’s too bad.
Anybody want to bet that Scarface is Hurd’s favorite movie? The world is yours, Sammy!
this is awesome.
Sam Hurd has obviously never seen the movie Blow.
Are you sure it wasn’t Ndamukong Suh who did this? I thought he was the one that’s “out of control”.
The Turd is the Hurd!
WOW, this is going to get ugly!
M bye bye Hurd…! I heard you might need an attorney…!
I will bet that atleast two Bengals are on the list of his clients.
good lord
It’d be hilarious if Tebow was one of the customers.
That means sit him this week and all after in Fantasy Football
Bears get three players from the Cowboys this summer. Williams drops a ball for a touchdown against the Chiefs, most likely losing the game. We all know what Barber did on Sunday, and the third guy is selling dope on the streets of Chicago, big time!
Another bell ringer of a deal by Angelo.
Ugh OH! {sniff, sniff}
A thousand lbs of pot per week ? He’s supplying more than a few Bears.
Legalize weed now !!!
Jeez, if I could get weed for $450 a pound I’d go into distribution as well.
I didn’t know Frank Lucas played in the NFL.
Maybe they should set up an NFL team in San Quentin! But . . . then they will have to change the rules and only allow home games!
if he was a mildy attractive white girl he’d be acquitted already
@duhbears
None of those players were traded either. Just cut and signed.
The scope in terms of what he wanted to buy is unbelievable. However, this shouldn’t come as a surprise, a lot of NFL players without sports as an avenue for them to make a living or turn to will be criminals, so once their career is done they fall back to what they would have otherwise done. Sad and pathetic if you ask me.
Wow, I guess cocaine is back.
fmlizard says:Dec 15, 2011 3:25 PM
$450 a pound for weed? That must be some serious ditch weed he is selling.
Or $450,000 dollars a week on weed gets you a seriouslly good deal.
When you buy a crap load it goes that cheap for good stuff, my cousins use to pay even less but not a 1000 pounds, they used to get 50-100, my one cousins in jail for 10 years
How many players, Julian Edelman(Pats), Jerome Simpson (Bengels) , Erik Walden(Packers) Larry Wilson (Panthers) Chris Cook (Vikings) to name a few have been arrested during the season and continued to play games?? James Harrison get suspended for hitting a running QB during a game. The Roger Goodell is a joke!!!!!!!!
Wow! Spin this one Howley/Vox.
Call him an idiot all you want… selling drugs is dumb but he got away with it for 6 years with that kind of volume? Impressive.
Breaking Bad – here comes your competition!
I guess this earns him a new moniker:
Sam Turd…
Yes, American Gangster was a great movie and it did look cool for 2 1/2 hours to be Frank Lucas, but damn! Somewhere common sense should of kicked in and you buy a chain of Starbucks instead
Sam ain’t no Drug Kingpin name… he should have changed it to Avon, Stringer, or Marlo.
All I know is once he gets in prison, he’ll be performing like Omar!
He should have looked for Sprint phones! ….dummy
I am in no way surprised that so many PFT posters are so informed about the topic as to educate the rest of us that $450/pound for weed is a good deal or he bought cheap stuff. You guys realize that he was trying to buy from source and not from other distributors, right?
“We CMB (Cash Making Bears)….We all we got!”
-Sam Hurd
Sam…. You were a feel-good story for San Antonio athletes…. Mighty Eagle no more….
it literally does sound like this dude was in the NFL just to make the money to keep the drugs flowing…wow. this one ‘ought to get real interesting
side note- ghostface is some GOOD stuff…nice
I love PFT, the only thing it was ever missing was street cred, but linking to some GFK just put it over the top.
Best.
Site.
Ever.
I dont know why some of the MORONS in here associate one persons stupid and greedy actions with that of an entire team….does it really matter where the scum bag came from or who he plays for now???….Jeeesh!!
Jerry Jones, on his golden toilet, laughing his butt off at Jerry Angelo. Three birds with one stone.
That’s a lot of cash, he must be playing for the Bears just to get health insurance.
Godell: Sam were you doing this?
Hurd: Yeah!
Godell: You know this is not allowed.
Hurd: Yeah!
Godell: You play for the Bears right?
Hurd: Yeah!
Goodell: OK Nothing will happen since you do not play for the Steelers! Have a nice day!
Hurd: Yeah!
Gentlemen, if Hurd was planning to buy that much weed — two tons a month — it would be my guess that he’s pretty much at the top of the weed chain, i.e. his cost is going to be about as low as it gets per pound. By the time the devil’s lettuce gets to you and your RUSH2112 bong in suburbia, the mark-up is considerable.
Dirt weed? He may be a drug dealer, but you don’t have to insult the man.
Turd.. See what I just did there??
I bet he appeals the suspension.
This is the Chicago organizations fault. They need to pay their players more so that they don’t have to take a second job.
$450 a pound he would have made a killing
Why make multi-millions in the NFL, when you can make it as a drug dealer!
According to the World Drug Report, 2011 – yes, there is such a thing – a gram of coke goes for a little more than $200 a gram in the US. If true, the gross on a kilo is $200,000 that he paid $25,000 grand for. And if he was looking for 5 to 10 kilos a week that would add up to $50 to $100 million a year in gross for something that costs around $10 million to acquire.
Yeah, I get there are multiple layers to pay but that’s a big stack of bills!
“was looking to buy 5 to 10 kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana per week”
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Why is marijuana measured in pounds (English measurements) but cocaine measured in kilograms (metric measurements)?
Also – what do you bet his #1 NFL player client is Tim Tebow? We all know Tebow will be on his list, it’s just a question of ranking how much he buys.
A Philly Eagle used to get pot off my buddy a few yes ago. not in these amounts but much better stuff….
Obviously he’s not one of the many NFL players who fail to plan for a career after football.
$450/pound of weed? That’s either a wal-mart blowout level deal or Hurd isn’t exactly keen on quality..
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I would give that a thumbs up but the would blow my cover
Industrious businessman sells to willing and eager customers. If the government could regulate and tax it, they’d call it capitalism.
Did he sell purple drank to Jamarcus, too?