CHICAGO (AP) â" The profession for Sam Hurd pronounced Friday that his customer had never sole drugs to other NFL players, anticipating to put any rumors to rest as a far-reaching receiver though a organisation prepares to quarrel sovereign drug charges that could put him in jail for 40 years.
Less than an hour after Hurd was cut by a Chicago Bears, invulnerability profession Brett Greenfield told reporters that his customer designed to quarrel a charges and wanted one thing finished clear.
"Sam has asked me to residence one point, with honour to a rumors that Sam has been provision drugs to other members of a NFL, out of honour to a NFL, out of honour to teammates and out of honour to other players, he 100 percent denies that allegation," Greenfield said. "It is plainly and totally false. It only didn't happen."
League orator Brian McCarthy pronounced a NFL was closely monitoring a situation. Asked about a news that authorities have a list of NFL players with ties to a drug case, McCarthy said: "We are not wakeful of such a list."
U.S. Magistrate Young Kim systematic Hurd to obey his pass and any firearms. Hurd is approaching to be attempted in Texas, where a rapist censure was filed this week by a U.S. attorney.
Hurd, who seemed in justice in an orange jumpsuit with his feet shackled, waived his right to a rough hearing, definition a subsequent step is for prosecutors to take their box before a grand jury. Several members of Hurd's family, including his wife, mom and brother, attended a conference though he didn't seem to demeanour during them, even as he was led out of a room. He was after expelled after posting $100,000 bond.
Hurd was arrested Wednesday night outward a Chicago steakhouse, according to a complaint. He allegedly told an clandestine representative he was meddlesome in shopping 5 to 10 kilograms of heroin and 1,000 pounds of pot per week to discharge in a Chicago area.
Hurd told a representative a "co-conspirator is in assign of doing a infancy of a deals" while he focused on "higher-end deals," a censure said. He concluded to compensate $25,000 for any kilogram of heroin and $450 a bruise for a marijuana, according to a charges, and afterwards pronounced he could compensate for a kilo of heroin â" about 2.2 pounds â" after "he gets out of practice." He walked out of a grill with a package and was arrested.
Hurd faces adult to 40 years in jail and a $2 million excellent if convicted of swindling to possess with a vigilant to discharge some-more than 500 grams of cocaine, or half a kilogram.
Teammates pronounced they were dumbfounded by a allegations and ubiquitous manager Jerry Angelo pronounced he was, too, as he announced a organisation was slicing Hurd.
"There were no facts, there were no flags, that anybody could benefaction tangibly to contend we should have famous otherwise, and we wish to make that ideally transparent to a public, to a fans," Angelo pronounced Friday. "We do a homework. We do a due diligence. We did all we could presumably do given a information that we can allocate."
The 26-year-old Hurd was in his initial year with the Bears and sixth year altogether in a NFL after 5 years with a Cowboys. Angelo pronounced a Bears achieved an endless credentials check on Hurd, a San Antonio local who played during Northern Illinois, before signing him in Jul to a three-year bargain reportedly value adult to $5.15 million, including a $1.35 million signing reward and bottom compensate this deteriorate of $685,000.
"We go back, we ask questions," Angelo said. "Is there something we could have done, something we should have done, in a process? Sometimes, there are glitches, though in this case, there are none. we could lay here and tell we with sum clarity that we did all we know to do in terms of a research, and there was zero that we found that would emanate a dwindle or an warning or a genuine regard in Sam Hurd's case."
Asked how certain he was that other players on a Bears or around a joining were not involved, Angelo said, "I can't speak about that."
"I'm positively not going on any magician hunts about players," he added. "The one thing that we've finished when there's been a wrong, we've acted. We don't clear wrongs. We've acted. We have a lane record of doing that. Unfortunately, a conditions arose that held us off guard, though not to a indicate where we aren't going to do a right thing."
The Bears announced their agreement agreement with Hurd on Jul 29, one day after sovereign authorities contend he had concluded to a "consensual interview" with Homeland Security investigators over $88,000 in income that had been seized in a automobile he owned in a Dallas area. The income was inside a board bag that authorities pronounced was lonesome in a plant-like element that tested certain for "properties of marijuana."
Hurd pronounced a income was his and that he had given a automobile to his acquaintance, a automobile emporium employee, for upkeep and fact work, a censure said.
"From my understanding, he wasn't a one that was pulled over," Angelo said. "His car was pulled over. He was not a driver. That was never finished public. So he was never charged with anything. There was never any record to a knowledge. And it was, from my understanding, a citation, though other than that, there was no other information that was presented to us."
Angelo would not contend if a Bears would try to replenish some of a signing bonus. He also gave a succinct answer when asked either a box competence impact his possess destiny with a Bears, revelation a contributor to "whistle Dixie." Angelo is underneath agreement by 2013.
As for Hurd, receiver Earl Bennett described him as a "guy with high impression who only loves to play a persion of football, loves to have fun." Bennett also pronounced he doesn't consider other players are involved.
"I wouldn't consider so," he said. "A lot of guys in this locker room are really high-character guys."
Coach Lovie Smith echoed that sentiment.
"We have a good organisation of guys," he said. "But infrequently when you're traffic with this many, it's tough to have all a players be a certain way. But we can't let that injure what else we're removing finished here. It's always about a team. Every once in a while a man will go outward what's best for a football organisation and there are consequences that we bargain with. That's how life goes. There are life lessons that are being schooled here by a football team."
Greenfield pronounced he wasn't certain either Hurd would try to get picked adult by another organisation as he fights a drug case.
"Sam's a football actor and he wants to play," he said. "Hopefully he'll be personification in a nearby destiny with another team."
If not, a profession said, there are other options.
"Sam's a college grad, Sam's a scholar, Sam's a very, really intelligent inpidual," Greenfield said.
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AP Sports Writer Howard Fendrich contributed to this report.
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