Former Tennessee Vols RB Arian Foster tells great story about getting a starting NFL player cut
Former Tennessee Vols running back Arian Foster told a great story this week on the Macrodosing Pod about (possibly) getting an NFL player cut way back in 2012. Foster said that in his first playoff game with the Houston Texans (during the 2011 season) he stiff armed a player so badly that the player got […]
Former Tennessee Vols running back Arian Foster told a great story this week on the Macrodosing Pod about (possibly) getting an NFL player cut way back in 2012.
Foster said that in his first playoff game with the Houston Texans (during the 2011 season) he stiff armed a player so badly that the player got cut the following offseason.
"There was a rumor, I don't know if it's true or not, I think I got him cut," said Foster. "My last run of that game — I had like 160 yards, it wasn't no big thing — but my last run of that game was like a 40 yard touchdown. I'm on the sidelines and I push him and I stiff arm him. It turned him around and then I threw him on the ground. And I went to score. It was bad. And people were telling me 'yo, you got him cut because of that'. "
The player was Cincinnati Bengals safety Chris Crocker. We checked the tape and it was definitely not one of Crocker's best moments in the NFL. The stiff arm from Foster was so bad that Crocker even got clowned during the highlight clip of the game.
"I hope Crocker's kids are asleep," quipped an NBC Sports analyst.
Crocker was indeed cut a couple of months later despite starting all 16 games in 2011 (mounting injuries that Crocker played through, however, were said to be the reason he got cut).
The playoff game against the Texans was probably one of Crocker's worst games with the Bengals and not just because he got bullied by Foster — Crocker also dropped an interception earlier in the game.
Crocker most recently served as an assistant coach in the XFL.
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