Trump issues pardons for 5 former NFL stars

President Donald Trump pardoned 5 former NFL gamers Thursday night.

White Home pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson introduced the pardon in a social media submit. Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon have been granted clemency.

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President Donald Trump listens throughout a Cupboard assembly on the White Home, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Picture/Evan Vucci, File)

“As soccer reminds us, excellence is constructed on perseverance, grace and the braveness to rise once more. That features our nation,” Johnson wrote in a submit on X.

She added that Dallas Cowboys group proprietor Jerry Jones shared the information “personally” with Newton, who was a three-time Tremendous Bowl winner with the Cowboys.

Klecko, a former New York Jets star and Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer, pleaded responsible to perjury when he lied to a federal grand jury investigating insurance coverage fraud.

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Dallas Cowboys guard Nate Newton (61) in motion in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park on November 10, 1996. (James D. Smith/USA TODAY Sports activities)

Newton, who was a six-time Professional Bowler and two-time All-Professional choice, pleaded responsible to a federal drug trafficking cost after legislation enforcement officers found $10,000 in his pickup truck in addition to 175 kilos of marijuana in a automobile in an accompanying automobile pushed by one other man.

Lewis, who received a Tremendous Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens, pleaded responsible in a drug case through which he used a cellphone to attempt to arrange a drug deal shortly after his former group chosen him with the No. 5 decide within the 2000 draft. He was the Offensive Participant of the 12 months in 2003.

Henry, a Professional Bowl working again who performed for 3 groups in his seven-year NFL profession, pleaded responsible to conspiring to visitors cocaine to finance a drug ring that moved between Colorado and Montana.

Oakland Raiders tight finish (33) Billy Cannon catches a go in opposition to the Inexperienced Bay Packers throughout Tremendous Bowl II on the Orange Bowl on January 14, 1968. (Tony Tomsic/USA TODAY NETWORK)

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Cannon, a star with the Houston Oilers and Oakland Raiders, admitted to counterfeiting within the mid-Nineteen Eighties. He was the Heisman Trophy winner in 1959 whereas at LSU. His pardon got here posthumously when he died in 2018.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

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