With his March 19 arrest, Nitro Tuggle became the latest Georgia football player to struggle with the law. New details of Tuggle’s arrest have since emerged, revealing the depth of the misdemeanor charges he received for speeding and reckless driving.
Tuggle was pulled over for driving at 107 miles per hour in a 65 MPH area, per the Athens-Banner Herald. The officer who filed the official police report also claimed Tuggle “nearly exited without placing the vehicle in park.”
“I instructed [Nitro] Tuggle to exit the vehicle, at which point he nearly exited without placing the vehicle in park,” the report read, via ESPN. “Due to his reckless regard for the safety of others — including himself, the passenger, other motorists and myself — by operating the vehicle at a speed 42 MPH over the limit and exceeding triple-digit speeds, I placed him under arrest.”
The passenger riding in the car with Tuggle was not publicly identified. However, it would appear to not be another member of the Georgia football team, considering the program’s recently announced suspensions.
Tuggle was unsurprisingly suspended by Kirby Smart for his arrest, in addition to offensive lineman Marques Easley. While Tuggle was suspended for his speeding arrest, Easley received his punishment for being involved in a car crash on March 17, the evening of St. Patrick’s Day. Both are indefinitely forbidden from participating in all team activities.
Georgia football’s transitioning receiving room in 2025
Tuggle’s spring absence will leave him out of the most important offseason of his career. With Georgia’s receiving room facing a significant amount of turnover, Tuggle was a potential 2025 breakout candidate, despite his limited production as a freshman.
All the attention of Georgia’s offense is on the transition from Carson Beck to Gunner Stockton, but the team’s receiving corps faces an equally crucial amount of change. With Dominic Lovett and Arian Smith in the 2025 NFL Draft, the Bulldogs retain just one starter, Dillon Bell. Rising junior London Humphreys is the only other returning wideout with meaningful experience, notching 244 receiving yards in 2024.
To replace Lovett and Smith, Georgia obtained Zachariah Branch and Noah Thomas from the college football transfer portal. Branch, a two-year starter at USC, was one of the top players of the portal.
Even with Branch and Thomas’ respective arrivals, the window of opportunity for each of Georgia’s wideouts has hardly been bigger. Tuggle, a former four-star prospect, was one of the names many viewed as a potential darkhorse star in the Bulldogs’ offense in the fall. While still possible, his arrest and subsequent suspension put a glaring wrench in those plans.
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