{"id":198524,"date":"2026-05-21T03:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198524\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:47:07","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-nolan-smith-arrested-for-speeding-in-twiggs-county-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198524\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles&#8217; Nolan Smith arrested for speeding in Twiggs County, Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Eagles outside linebacker Nolan Smith was arrested in Georgia last week for speeding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.13wmaz.com\/article\/news\/local\/former-georgia-bulldog-and-current-nfl-linebacker-arrested-for-reckless-driving-in-twiggs-county\/93-ea91bf9f-c802-42d0-bcea-c964ddf31ba6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CBS affiliate WMAZ-TV reported<\/a> Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who won two national championships with the University of Georgia and a Super Bowl with the Eagles, was charged with speeding and reckless driving on Interstate 16 in Twiggs County last Friday, WMAZ-TV reported. He was taken to Twiggs County Jail and has since been released on bond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In April, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/eagles-jalen-carter-nolan-smith-fifth-year-options\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eagles exercised the fifth-year option on Smith&#8217;s rookie contract<\/a>, which will keep him in Philadelphia through the 2027 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith, a Savannah, Georgia, native, had 31 tackles and three sacks in 11 games last season. He owns the franchise record for the most sacks in a single postseason with four in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/nolan-smith-eagles-breakout-nfl-playoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">season the Eagles won Super Bowl LIX<\/a>\u00a0over the Kansas City Chiefs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 25, was selected by the Eagles with the No. 30 overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Philadelphia has reached out to the Eagles for comment, but we&#8217;ve yet to hear back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles outside linebacker Nolan Smith was arrested in Georgia last week for speeding, CBS affiliate WMAZ-TV reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10942,69,4538,71,70],"class_list":["post-198524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-georgia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}