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Michael DiRoccoDec 18, 2025, 03:04 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Michael DiRocco is an NFL Nation reporter at ESPN and covers the Jacksonville Jaguars. He previously covered the University of Florida for over a decade for ESPN and the Florida Times-Union. DiRocco graduated from Jacksonville University and is a multiple APSE award winner.<\/p>\n Former Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> and Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> linebacker Myles Jack<\/a> is facing gun charges in Texas after his Tuesday arrest, according to a Frisco Police Department news release.<\/p>\n Per the release, police responding to a welfare check at a Frisco residence at 5:40 a.m. local time on Dec. 16 heard gunshots from inside the residence. After setting up a perimeter and evacuating several other residences, police officers saw a second-story window break and a suspect — later identified as the 30-year-old Jack — climb out and fall to the ground.<\/p>\n Jack was arrested at 7:12 a.m. and taken to a local hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries, per the release. Police said no one else was inside the residence.<\/p>\n The Denton County Sheriff’s Office charged Jack with deadly conduct\/discharge of a firearm, which is a third-degree felony, and misdemeanor discharge of a firearm in certain municipalities.<\/p>\n Jack played in 18 games over two seasons with the Steelers (2022-23) after playing six seasons with the Jaguars, who selected him with the 36th overall pick in 2016.<\/p>\n Jack and his mother, LaSonjia Jack, purchased the ECHL Allen Americans minor league hockey franchise in 2023. He also is listed on the ECHL’s Jacksonville Icemen website as being among a group of former athletes that are investors in Zawyer Sports, which owns the Icemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael DiRoccoDec 18, 2025, 03:04 PM ET CloseMichael DiRocco is an NFL Nation reporter at ESPN and covers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-356735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}