When Adam Jones was arrested a few days after New Years, for the first time in a while, fans were seeing shades of 2007.
Among the players with the longest histories of legal trouble in the NFL, Jones was a risky signing for the Bengals back in 2010. But despite his troubled past, he had managed to stay clean for the duration of this six-year stint in Cincinnati. It looked like he might have turned over a new leaf.
But then the allegations came that he spit on a nurse while in jail. And that he was in jail for multiple misdemeanors he had committed earlier in the night.