University of Georgia football player NiTareon ‘Nitro’ Tuggle has become the latest athlete from the program to get arrested for speeding and reckless driving charges.
Tuggle was arrested on Thursday morning by Athens-Clarke County Police on misdemeanor charges, per UGASports.com.
The rising sophomore was booked into the county jail just before 2:00am and was released an hour later after posting a cash bond of just $20.
Tuggle is the latest player within the program to be arrested for driving-related incidents.
Between January 2023 and July 2024, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed that players within the Georgia football program were involved in 24 driving-related incidents.
Multiple arrests, including this one, have happened since the publishing of that report.
Georgia receiver Nitro Tuggle has been arrested for alleged reckless driving and speeding
Tuggle considered transferring from Georgia, but exited the portal a day after entering it
A microscope has been placed on the program ever since the deaths of lineman Devin Willock and recruiting analyst Chandler LeCroy the night after the Bulldogs were celebrating winning the national championship for the 2022 season.
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart has previously maintained that he and his colleagues are working to solve this problem, but last year rejected the idea that different team policies could have prevented the fatalities.
‘No policy or lack thereof policy caused this accident,’ Smart told Online Athens in 2023 – in reaction to a different driving incident involving one of his players.
Tuggle initially considered entering the transfer portal after getting very little time in his first season at Georgia, but changed his mind just one day later.
As a freshman, the Indiana native appeared in just six games and managed three catches for 34 yards.
