{"id":135499,"date":"2026-02-16T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135499\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:24:07","slug":"browns-safety-ronnie-hickman-suffers-minor-injuries-from-assault-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135499\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns Safety Ronnie Hickman Suffers Minor Injuries From Assault in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6t\">Browns safety Ronnie Hickman was assaulted outside of a New York City hotel on Monday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clevelandbrowns.com\/news\/ronnie-hickman-released-from-hospital-following-incident\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the team announced in a statement<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6w\">Hickman was taken to a local hospital where he was treated for minor injuries. By the time the Browns released the statement on Monday afternoon, Hickman was at home resting with his family by his side.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6z\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/16\/us-news\/cleveland-browns-safety-ronnie-hickman-jumped-by-group-outside-trendy-lower-east-side-hotel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Post reported<\/a> that Hickman was jumped outside of the SIXTY LES hotel around 4:30 a.m. ET on Monday. It\u2019s unknown what injuries Hickman sustained from the altercation.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement from Browns spokesperson: \u201cSafety Ronnie Hickman was a victim of assault early Monday morning at a New York City hotel.  Ronnie was treated for minor injuries at an area hospital after the incident, was later released, and is home resting with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Oyefusi (@DanielOyefusi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielOyefusi\/status\/2023482424643252523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"75\">As of Monday afternoon, no arrests have been made regarding anyone involved in the assault.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"78\">Hickman just finished up his third season in Cleveland and competed in all 17 games. He recorded a career-high 103 tackles, two interceptions and defended seven passes. He\u2019s expected to become an unrestricted free agent this offseason unless the Browns sign him to a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL on Sports Illustrated<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Browns safety Ronnie Hickman was assaulted outside of a New York City hotel on Monday morning, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-135499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}