Browns Rookie Quinshon Judkins Arrested of Suspicion of Domestic Violence

Cleveland Browns rookie Quinshon Judkins was arrested on Saturday, July 12, and taken into custody for alleged domestic violence.

Judkins, 21, is currently behind bars at Broward County jail following his arrest in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Arrest records reviewed by Us Weekly indicate bail has been set at $2,500 and currently pending, and that Judkins was charged with battery, a first degree misdemeanor charge. More details surrounding the arrest are not publicly available.

Us Weekly has reached out to representatives for the Browns and for Judkins for comment.

Judkins was selected by the Browns as the No. 36 overall draft pick in the second round of the 2025 NFL Draft after playing football for the University of Mississippi and Ohio State. Notably, Judkins has not yet signed his contract with the team — he is one of 30 rookies who are currently negotiating for more favorable terms.

The NFL has long been hit by accusations that the league does not do enough to address issues of domestic violence, an issue that reached a fever pitch in 2014 after three players — Ray Rice, Greg Hardy and Adrian Peterson — were each perpetrators of violence in separate events.

On February 15, 2014, Rice was caught on video punching his fiancée until she fell unconscious in an elevator at the Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was at first suspended for two games by the Baltimore Ravens before the video leaked, and then was suspended indefinitely after the video’s release. Though his legal team eventually overturned the suspension, no teams were willing to sign Rice and his career ended after several months.

Both Rice and his now-wife Janay Palmer were arrested following the incident and charged with simple assault. Rice was later indicted on third-degree aggravated assault, and the pair married the next day. Rice did not go to trial, and instead attended a pre-trial intervention program that required a guilty plea in exchange for no conviction once he completed the program, which he did in May 2014, ESPN reported.

“We’re very happy with the result. We’re glad that the court and the prosecutor’s office agreed PTI was the appropriate disposition for the case,” Rice’s attorney told ESPN at the time.

Hardy, now an UFC fighter, was suspended by the NFL 2015 after an investigation revealed he “used physical force against a significant other at least four times,” ESPN reported. He was convicted on domestic violence charges, but his victim did not testify during the appeal and the charges were ultimately dropped. In June 2025, Hardy was again arrested for allegedly assaulting a family member.

Hardy defended himself via Instagram the same month. “Please stop spreading what these chaos machines post, they don’t know any facts then fuel the fire that effects my kids and my wife,” the New York Post reported he wrote on the platform.

He continued, “Things get emotional but has never and will never be what you clowns are trying to spread. I ask with all my heart please, My family and I are all perfectly fine. Please stop spreading lies and rumors and give our family the time and space to work through it all in private.”

Adrian Peterson was accused of abusing his then-4-year-old son in 2014. Photos and video of the abuse surfaced and resulted in a league suspension, ESPN reported at the time. He was ultimately charged with felony child abuse and pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of misdemeanor reckless assault. He received a two-year probation sentence, a $4,000 fine and 80 hours of community service.

NFL Commissioner Robert Goddell cited the abuse in a letter announcing Peterson’s suspension from the Minnesota Vikings. “I’m sorry for all of this,” Peterson said in a statement at the time, “but I can’t excuse [the league’s] refusal to be fair” — an apparent reference to his suspension.