Cowboys target Bain's draft stock could fall after deadly car crash revealed

The NFL is a multibillion industry and as such, they can hire the best at finding scandals when they want to. Drafting a player at the top of the first round is often such an occasion, and it appears that something significant has been uncovered.

Oliver Connolly of The Read Optional reported that University of Miami defensive end Rueben Bain was involved in a 2024 car crash where he was cited for careless driving in which the victim eventually died from injuries sustained in the accident. The Dallas Cowboys have been linked to Bain who has had to hear about his less than ideal arm length throughout the draft process.

The Hurricane prospect must now navigate questions less than two weeks from the draft.

On March 17, 2024, Bain was driving a 2021 Land Rover Sport on Interstate 95 with three other passengers, when his vehicle collided with a 2014 Jeep Wrangler driven by a person named Jaime E. Rodriguez before hitting concrete barriers on both sides of the highway.

One of the passengers in Bain's vehicle was 22-year-old Destiny Betts, a college student from Georgia visiting Miami for spring break. Betts suffered serious injuries and was rushed to Ryder Trauma Center, however she never regained consciousness and died almost three months later at North Shore Hospice.

A field sobriety test was not administered at the scene and the charges against Bain were dismissed two weeks before Betts succumbed to her injuries.

Bain received a single citation, "Operated his vehicle in a careless or negligent manner".

The other two passengers in his vehicle, Miami linebacker Wesley Bissainthe and Nyjalik Kelly (who now plays at UCF) were both teammates with Bain at the time of the crash and are both draft eligible for the 2026 NFL Draft.

Iit is fairly reasonable to think Bain might fall in the draft, much like Ole Miss tackle Laremy Tunsil did almost 10 years to the day after his Twitter account was hacked and video of him smoking through a gas mask made the rounds.

In a more serious comparison, LSU lineman La'el Collins went undrafted after word emerged police wanted to talk to him over the death of his pregnant ex-girlfriend days ahead of the 2015 NFL Draft. Collins was cleared of any wrongdoing and later signed with the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent.

For what it's worth, Bain has not been named as one of the Cowboys' 23 official pre-draft visitors at this point.

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