Terrelle Pryor was arrested last month near Pittsburgh after police pulled over a speeding Mercedes and found him in the back seat with a suspected MDMA baggie, along with a rifle on the floor. The former NFL quarterback-turned-receiver’s latest legal trouble
Terrelle Pryor’s name has been pulled back into the spotlight—this time for a reason far removed from football.
Pryor was arrested last month near Pittsburgh for drug possession, after police in Monroeville pulled over a Mercedes that was speeding on May 24. Officers found Pryor lying in the back seat in what they described as an “odd” way and breathing heavily. A rifle sat on the floor of the back seat.
When Pryor removed his wallet to show authorities his concealed carry permit, police noticed a baggie containing a powdery substance suspected to be MDMA.
Pryor’s NFL résumé is familiar to football fans. but the details of his latest arrest bring a different kind of attention. A third-round pick in the 2011 supplemental draft, he spent three years with the Raiders at quarterback. He was out of football in 2014 after being released in late August by the Seahawks. then returned in 2015 as a receiver with the Browns. He spent two years in Cleveland and one in Washington. In the 2018 season, he played for the Jets and the Bills.
Off the field, Pryor’s history already includes a major NCAA and NFL eligibility storyline. In 2016, he produced 1,007 receiving yards with the Browns on 77 catches. Before that. he left Ohio State for the supplemental draft after being suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season for selling memorabilia and trading autographs for tattoos. The NFL duplicated the five-game suspension, reasoning that he manipulated NFL eligibility rules.
When Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld the suspension. he concluded Pryor left OSU “in order to avoid the consequences of his conduct while in college — conduct to which he had admitted and for which he had accepted a suspension — and to hasten the day when he could pursue a potentially lucrative professional career in the NFL.”.
That outcome has now fed fresh debate around the Brendan Sorsby case. The questions run like this: whether the NFL would embrace Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby if he had failed to secure a court order restoring his eligibility for 2026 and had entered the 2026 supplemental draft. That hypothetical is currently moot. unless Sorsby chooses—amid the storm of criticism and scrutiny that has followed his win—to withdraw his challenge to the NCAA’s ruling and enter the supplemental draft.
The deadline is June 22.
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So they just “found” MDMA in the car and he’s surprised? NFL guys always get caught somehow.
This is wild but also why is there a rifle in the back seat like that?? Also the article says speeding Mercedes… like ok but that doesn’t even mean anything about drugs lol
Wait I thought Terrelle Pryor was a receiver, not a QB? The article is confusing. And is this really connected to that Texas Tech kid? Sounds like they’re mixing stories.
I mean he already had that whole tattoo/autograph thing at Ohio State right? So yeah, guess it’s the same pattern. But also MDMA could be like literally anything? Powdery substance suspected… cops always say suspected. Either way, rifle on the floor is crazy and I’m not even getting why the NCAA eligibility drama is in the same article.