Former New England Patriots fullback Patrick Pass assaulted an 82-year-old man at a Rhode Island gym last month, leading to his arrest Wednesday, police said.
The 46-year-old three-time Super Bowl champion was at a Planet Fitness facility in North Providence on Aug. 28 when police say he and the victim got into a verbal dispute over exercise equipment.
Pass is accused of pushing the octogenarian to the ground, injuring his lower back.
He faces charges of assaulting a 60-year-old man, causing bodily injury and disorderly conduct. Pass has been released on $10,000 personal bail. The Georgia native is due back in court in December.
Pass has struggled with health issues since leaving the NFL in 2009.
Former New England Patriots fullback Patrick Pass assaulted an 82-year-old man, police say
Pass has battled health issues and visited neurologists since his NFL career ended.
Patrick Pass and his wife Monique are seen before Tom Brady was honored in Foxborough
In 2020, his wife posted photos of him online, showing Pass lying on a bathroom floor. In other photos, he is seen incapacitated in a hospital bed.
“I need people to see life after the NFL,” Monique Pass wrote online. “This was a month ago, my husband suffers from severe migraines and vertigo due to his career. My mother called me to tell me she found my husband passed out in the basement bathroom.”
In June 2020, Monique posted a video of her husband walking with a noticeable limp. In another post from March of that year, she showed Pass being evaluated by “noted neurologist Norman Gordon.”
“My husband hasn’t been feeling well lately,” she wrote. “He needs prayers.”
Pass had a seven-year career, primarily with the Patriots.
After her career, Monique began speaking out about benefits for retired NFL players, which she says her husband relies on for his financial survival.
Pass, a football and baseball star at Tucker High School in Georgia, attended the University of Georgia before being drafted by the Patriots in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL Draft, one round after the team selected a low-rated Michigan quarterback named Tom Brady.