On the evening of Feb. 25, officers with the Union City Police Department in Union City, Georgia, detained the former NFL and CFL player for shoplifting at a Kroger supermarket location.
Per Edward Lewis of the California Post, officers found Nkemdiche with multiple grocery items stuffed in his sweatpants. Among the items stolen were almond milk, frozen meals and candy bars.
“You can say whatever you want to say. But I just watched you walk out of here with a big-ass bulge in your pants. I asked you what it was. You said nothing.”
“Then, to give you the benefit of the doubt, I was like, ‘OK. Maybe he’s just got, I don’t know, like, a condition.’ I let you go, and I see you just take off running behind the gas station…
Expectations were high for Nkemdiche coming into the NFL. He earned First-team All-SEC and Second-team All-American honors in his final college season at Ole Miss.
Robert Nkemdiche was once a first round NFL draft pick. Now he’s getting roasted by police in bodycam footage for stuffing almond milk down his pants at a Georgia Kroger.
It’s a fall from grace that’s almost too absurd to believe if the video wasn’t right there for everyone to see.