Josh Sills: 5 Things About Eagles Player Indicted On Rape & Kidnapping Charges Days Before Super Bowl

• Josh Sills is an American shot player.
• He’s been with the Philadelphia Eagles since 2022.
• He was indicted connected rape and kidnapping charges little than 2 weeks earlier Super Bowl LVII.

Josh Sills is apt not going to the Super Bowl. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and Guernsey County Sheriff Jeffrey D. Paden announced connected Wednesday (Feb. 1) that Sills, 25, was indicted connected 1 number of rape and 1 number of kidnapping, some first-degree felonies. The indictment, according to the Guernsey County Sheriff Department’s website, alleges that Sills engaged successful a intersexual enactment that was “not consensual” successful December 2019, and helium allegedly held the unnamed idiosyncratic against her will.

The alleged unfortunate reported the incidental immediately, and the Guernsey County Sheriff’s Department “conducted a elaborate investigation.” Afterward, the lawsuit was presented to a Guernsey County Common Please Court expansive assemblage and is present being prosecuted by the Special Prosecutions conception of Attorney General Dave Yost’s office. Sills was issued a summons to look earlier a tribunal connected Feb. 16, 4 days aft his team, the Philadelphia Eagles, play the Kansas City Chiefs successful Super Bowl LVII (Feb. 12).

As of the clip of publication, the Eagles haven’t publically commented connected the charges. HollywoodLife will update this station with immoderate further information.

As the contented unfolds, here’s what you request to cognize astir Josh Sills.

Josh Sills (Uncredited/AP/Shutterstock)

Josh Sills Is An American Football Player

Joshua Matthew Sills (b. Jan. 26, 1998) grew up successful Sarahsville, Ohio, attending Meadowbrook High School earlier attending West Virginia University. In 2020, helium transferred to Oklahoma State University. He declared for the NFL Draft successful 2022, went unselected, and was aboriginal signed by the Eagles arsenic an undrafted escaped agent.

Sills is listed arsenic a second-string close guard. He lone played 1 crippled arsenic a rookie, a week 5 matchup with the Arizona Cardinals.

Josh Sills Spent His Highschool On A Farm

“I worked with my precocious schoolhouse agriculture teacher connected his farm,” Josh told NBC Sports. “I planted corn, fed cows, vaccinated cows, artificially inseminated cows. Normal mundane workplace stuff. I fundamentally did my internship with him. We conscionable mean workplace stuff, built a fence, vaccinated cattle, planted corn, mowed hay, baled hay. That was truly astir it.”

“I knew him,” Sills added. “He really went to schoolhouse with my mom’s brother, my uncle, truthful I knew him a small spot earlier past and conscionable became truly bully friends with him. I asked him if helium would beryllium comfy with maine doing an internship with him. Of course, helium said yes. I did my internship with him implicit the summer, truthful it was astir apt a mates months.”

He Pursued Agriculture In College

“The large happening for maine is I person my undergrad successful agribusiness management, and OSU here, they person 1 of the apical 10, apical 15 ag schools successful the country,” Josh told Sports Illustrated in 2020. “But the different large happening that I noticed close disconnected the bat, conscionable from talking connected the telephone with manager Gundy, manager Dickey, manager (Rob) Glass, manager (Kasey) Dunn, and those guys is they were radical that I wanted to beryllium around.”

Josh successful a preseason crippled (Wilfredo Lee/AP/Shutterstock)

He Credits His Parents For His Success

“I deliberation the biggest happening that has benignant of helped maine is I bask hard work,” Sills told SI. “My dad, some my parents, instilled that into maine astatine a young age. We didn’t ever person the champion things oregon the nicest things, but they would marque definite that my sister and I would person what we needed. Seeing that, and being astir that, conscionable benignant of helped signifier beryllium into the idiosyncratic that I americium today.”

His Parents Are His Biggest Fans

In 2021, Josh’s parents, John and Kimm Sills, told The Oklahoman that they enactment much than 232,000 miles connected their 2013 Nissan Altima from traveling to each 1 of Josh’s shot games. “It’s huge,” Josh said astir his parents’ committedness to seeing him play. “I don’t truly cognize however to explicate it. There’s not capable words to picture what that means to me, conscionable the love, willingness, caringness, and compassion that they person is unreal.”

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