Ex-New England Patriots fullback Patrick Pass 'assaulted 82-year-old man at gym in argument over equipment,' cops say

Former New England Patriots fullback Patrick Pass assaulted an 82-year-old man at a Rhode Island gym last month, leading to his arrest on Wednesday, police have revealed.

The 46-year-old three-time Super Bowl champion was at the Planet Fitness facility in North Providence on August 28 when, police say, he and the victim got into a verbal dispute about exercise equipment.

Pass is accused of shoving the octogenarian to the floor, injuring the man's lower back.

He is facing charges for assaulting a man of 60 causing bodily injury and disorderly conduct. Pass has since been released on $10,000 personal recognizance. The native Georgian is due back in court in December.

Pass has struggled with health issues since leaving the NFL in 2009.

In 2020, his wife posted pictures of him online, showing Pass sprawled across a bathroom floor. In other photos, he's seen incapacitated in a hospital bed.

'I need ppl to see life after NFL,' Monique Pass wrote online. 'This was a month ago, my husband suffers from severe migraines and vertigo from his career. My mom called me to tell me she found my husband passed out in her basement bathroom.'

In June of 2020, Monique posted video of her husband walking with a noticeable limp. In another post from March of that year, she showed Pass being evaluated by 'top neurologist doctor Mr. Norman Gordon.'

'hubby has not been well lately,' she wrote. 'needing prayers.'

Pass had a seven-year career, mostly with the Patriots.

After his career, Monique became vocal about benefits for retired NFL players, which she said her husband relies on for his financial survival.

A football and baseball star at Tucker High School in Georgia, Pass went on to attend the University of Georgia before being picked by the Patriots in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL Draft – one round after the team picked a lowly rated Michigan quarterback named Tom Brady.