A former NFL participant who’s now a Tennessee highschool soccer coach was arrested in a prostitution sting after he allegedly paid to have intercourse with what he thought was a 16-year-old lady.
Jay Graham, who spent 5 years within the league as a working again with a number of groups, allegedly responded to a pretend grownup escort web site and agreed to pay $120 for intercourse — even after the individual he thought he was speaking to mentioned she was underage.
Graham, 50, was instantly taken into custody on Wednesday when he arrived at a Nashville lodge and handed the money to somebody who was truly an undercover cop, in line with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Division.
He’s charged with patronizing prostitution with a minor and solicitation of a minor for aggravated statutory rape. His bond was set at $45,000, in line with police.
Graham performed for the College of Tennessee from 1993 to 1996, the place he rushed for over 2,600 yards as an All-SEC working again.
He had a five-year stint within the NFL enjoying for the Baltimore Ravens, Seattle Seahawks and Inexperienced Bay Packers between 1997 and 2002, ending his profession with 454 yards and two touchdowns.
Graham spent the following twenty years working as a university assistant coach at a number of faculties, successful a nationwide title with Florida State College in 2013, in line with the Tennessean.
He was the working backs coach at Tennessee in 2012 and once more from 2020 by way of 2022, however stepped away as a result of psychological well being causes, the paper reported.
Graham then hung out at East Tennessee State as a coordinator earlier than being employed in March by Centennial Centennial Excessive College in Franklin.
Williamson County Faculties district fired Graham from his teaching place and banned him from faculty campus after studying of the allegations on Wednesday, in line with the Tennessean. He has solely been suspended in his position as a instructor because the district has a distinct course of terminating lecturers.
“Regulation enforcement has not indicated that there must be any concern for Centennial households,” a district spokesperson advised the Tennessean.
Two different males, ages 46 and 20, had been arrested within the sting operation and are dealing with related fees, in line with police.
