At the very least, Michael Bennett has become a distraction.
Nine days after the Eagles traded for Bennett the former Seahawks defensive end was indicted by a Harris County, Texas grand jury for a felony charge related to an incident last year during Super Bowl LI when he allegedly injured a 66-year-old paraplegic woman.
Bennett, according to the Harris County district attorney’s office, “shoved his way onto the field” during the postgame celebration after NRG Stadium security personnel told him “he had to use a different entrance for field access.”
Houston police chief Art Acevedo, during a Friday afternoon news conference, said that Bennett forced open locked doors and then barreled through three workers – a man, a 28-year-old woman, and the alleged victim — to get on the field.