The Latest on the lawsuit filed by former NFL linebacker Khaseem Greene against authorities in New Jersey (all times local):
12:55 p.m.
Prosecutors in New Jersey have declined to comment on a lawsuit filed by a former NFL linebacker who says he was wrongfully charged by authorities.
Khaseem Greene filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging police and prosecutors manufactured evidence to pursue a gun charge against him even after another man
admitted lying about Greene’s involvement in a shooting outside a nightclub in
Elizabeth in December 2016.
The suit names the Union County Prosecutor’s Office and the Elizabeth Police Department. The prosecutor’s office declined to
comment
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respond to a message seeking comment.
The gun charge against Greene was dropped last July after an audio recording surfaced of the other man telling detectives he lied about getting the weapon
from Greene.
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9:05 a.m.
A former NFL linebacker says in a lawsuit that police and prosecutors in New Jersey knew a shooter had lied about getting a weapon from the player, but
charged him anyway.
A gun charge against Khaseem Greene was dropped in July after an audio recording surfaced of the other man telling detectives he lied about Greene’s
involvement in a shooting outside a nightclub in Elizabeth in December 2016.
The Kansas City Chiefs released Greene the day charges against him were reported.
The other man’s admission came the day he told detectives Greene was involved. But it wasn’t included in a criminal complaint that alleged Greene was
seen on camera handing him a gun.
The suit, filed Tuesday, names the Elizabeth Police Department, and the Union County Prosecutors Office. Messages seeking comment left with the agencies
weren’t immediately returned.
Well, it turns out that maybe Panthers four-time All-Pro middle linebacker Luke Kuechly may have a minor flaw in his
game.
Who knew?
The 27-year-old Kuechly, considered one of the best players in the league at his
position
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ability needs to improve ”by leaps and bounds.”
And Panthers coach Ron Rivera was quick to agree.
”Yes, he does” need to improve, Rivera said. ”Like Cam (Newton) likes to tell you, `Superman has his Kryptonite.”’
Kuechly has been akin to Superman for the Panthers defense over the past six seasons.
He has 818 tackles and 15 interceptions during that span, and has staked his claim as the most productive middle linebacker ever to play for the Panthers
-with a realistic chance to go down as one of the NFL’s all-time bests along
with Ray Lewis, Jack Lambert, Dick Butkus and Mike Singletary.
Rivera has repeatedly said Kuechly is like having a coach on the field with his ability to call out an opponent’s play call to teammates before the ball is
ever snapped. He’s seemingly always around the ball and his mistakes are few and
far between.
Getting to the quarterback has rarely been one of Kuechly’s strengths.
He has 10 career sacks
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Seattle middle linebacker Bobby Wagner – whom Kuechly is often compared to in
the NFC – has 15 sacks during that same span.
Kuechly is working with new linebackers coach Steve Russ to improve his explosiveness and ability to penetrate the line of scrimmage, a skillset that
could potentially elevate the 2013 NFL Defensive Player of the Year to a whole
new level.
”Coach Russ has a planned attack for (improving) that and hopefully it will translate into a game,” Kuechly said.
Kuechly joked that he has to get better at pressuring the quarterback because his longtime buddy Thomas Davis, the team’s outside linebacker, ”beats me in
that (category) every year – and I have to try to get him back.”
This may be Kuechly’s year to get the best of Davis, who will start the season serving a four-game suspension for testing positive for a banned
substance.
It’s not anything new for Kuechly to target an area to improve. For the past couple of years Kuechly spent extra energy working on his pass coverage
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Of course, the biggest concern for Kuechly will be avoiding another concussion. He has sustained a concussion in each of the past three seasons,
causing him to miss 10 games.
The Panthers simply can’t afford to lose him.
His speed and ability to chase down ball carriers from sideline to sideline still amazes Rivera, who played linebacker for nine seasons for the Chicago
Bears and won a Super Bowl in the 1985 season.
Rivera said he’s ”seen everything” from Kuechly, but pointed to a play he made last week in practice that caused the coach to pause the game film and
replay it in slow motion several times. As Rivera describes it, Kuechly was
chasing down a ball carrier to the outside when a blocker stepped in his way to
cut him off.
But that didn’t keep Kuechly from making the play though.
”The position he was in, he should have been cut off
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down with him and he jumped around him and accelerated to the outside and made
the play. It’s one of those where you just sit there and go, `Wow.”’
While the focus this summer will be on improving as a pass rusher, Rivera said Kuechly remains a special player.
”He has that kind of ability and I think a big part of it is just how smart he is as a football player,” Rivera said.
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