Just hours after The Arizona Cardinals deactivated running back Jonathan Dwyer for head-butting his wife, the team released running back Chris Rainey.
The Cardinals cut Rainey today after cable news network CNN started asking questions about his violent past. Rainey has been arrested in the past for stalking and slapping a girlfriend.
Rainey was signed to the Cardinals practice squad on September 9 after he was cut by the Indianapolis Colts for an unexplained violation. Ironically, Dwyer vouched for Rainey when Cardinals head Coach Bruce Arians was considering signing the 26-year-old Lakeland native.
The Pittsburgh Steelers cut Rainey on January 10, 2013, after he was arrested on a battery charge.
From Fansided.com:
Rainey, unlike Dywer, didn’t recently do anything wrong but he’s being retroactively punished for his numerous run-ins with domestic violence. Rainey has been kicked off teams before for his actions and while there doesn’t seem to be anything immediately prompting this release, it’s something the Cardinals feel they needed to do as the league continues to purge violent off-field offenders from the sport.
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