Former Steelers LB Devin Bush Jr. Arrested

Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Devin Bush Jr. was arrested earlier at present in Allegheny county with costs of easy assault and harassment, per a court docket doc shared by KDKA’s Colin Dunlap on X.

Bush was the Steelers’ first-round choose within the 2019 NFL Draft, transferring up from No. 20 to No. 10 in a commerce with the Denver Broncos to draft him. Whereas he had a promising rookie season that earned him Defensive Rookie of the Yr consideration, a knee damage set him again early on in his profession.

A number of seasons of making an attempt to recapture his promising rookie season type failed. By the top of the 2022 season, he had been benched by the Steelers in favor of Robert Spillane and Mark Robinson.

The Steelers in the end declined his fifth-year possibility and Bush ended up signing with the Seattle Seahawks on a one-year deal in 2023. The Bush experiment set the within linebacker place again a number of years in Pittsburgh and so they simply lastly discovered options with Patrick Queen, Payton Wilson, Cole Holcomb and others in current seasons.

The Steelers additionally shipped off their second-round choose in 2019 in addition to a 2020 third-round choose for Bush, so it actually restricted their draft worth over the subsequent couple years as properly.

Most just lately, Bush was a member of the Cleveland Browns on a one-year deal in 2024. He began 10 video games for the Browns and logged 76 complete tackles, eight tackles for loss, three passes defensed, one quarterback hit and a sack.

The Browns prolonged him on one other one-year deal value $3.25 million with $2.97 million assured, per Over The Cap. He was prone to play in a rotational position this season, however the Browns did draft LB Carson Schewsinger within the second spherical of the 2025 NFL Draft.

In a crowded linebacker room, we are going to see what ramifications this authorized situation might probably have for Bush sticking on the Browns’ roster.

There aren’t any additional particulars out there in regards to the incident right now. That is prone to be a creating story.