Last year, former Bears offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer got in trouble for figuratively stabbing quarterback Jay Cutler in the back. Now, Kromer has gotten into trouble for literally punching someone. Allegedly.
Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, acting on a Twitter tip that included a link to the mugshot and charge from a publication in Florida, reports that Kromer was arrested early Sunday for battery with intent to cause bodily harm.
Rapoport also tweeted the image of the booking information from the Walton County Jail, continuing the new trend of publishing raw materials to confirm accuracy and/or to show off.
The immediate problem for the Bills, with training camp looming, is that Kromer could be headed for the Commissioner-Exempt list. The new Personal Conduct Policy contemplates the use of paid leave when an NFL employee is charged with a crime of violence. The league broadly defines the term to include persons accused “of having used physical force or a weapon to injure or threaten another person, of having engaged in a sexual assault by force or a sexual assault of a person who was incapable of giving consent, of having engaged in other conduct that poses a genuine danger to the safety or well-being of another person, or of having engaged in animal abuse.”
So the Bills may may be paying Kromer not to work until his charges are resolved and any punishment from the league has been determined. Thereafter, Kromer could be placed on unpaid leave by the league. Thereafter, the Bills could place Kromer on permanent unpaid leave.
Coincidentally, it was Rapoport to whom Kromer complained about Cutler last December, resulting in an apology from Kromer to the players.
[Photo credit: Walton County (Fla.) Jail]