The Seahawks’ 2017 second-round pick has gotten his name in the police blotter before the stat sheet.
Malik McDowell, a defensive end drafted 35th overall out of Michigan State who has spent his entire rookie season on the injured reserve list, was documented berating police officers with obscenities while they were arresting him Sunday night for disorderly conduct outside of an Atlanta club. In video footage obtained by TMZ, McDowell can be heard repeatedly calling the male cop a “n—a” and the female cop a “b—h” and boasting about how much more money he makes than they do.
“I can call you a b—h if I want to,” McDowell shouted at the woman, adding later, “You’ll be a broke b—h for the rest of your life.”
McDowell, 21, continued to ask what he was being arrested for and got increasingly aggressive when the officers gave him the answer.
“Dumb a– n—s,” he said, as he was getting pushed into the police car.
The rookie, who likely was bragging about the four-year, $6.95 million contract he signed with the Seahawks in May, was booked for reportedly getting into a dispute at the club over a $600 bill. He was later released on a $325 bond.
McDowell apologized for his behavior Monday and met with Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider with the intention of putting the incident behind him.
Malik McDowell runs a drill at the NFL combine in March.AP“I am embarrassed by the situation and my actions on Saturday,” McDowell said in a statement. “I would like to apologize to the Atlanta Police Department, SL Lounge, the entire Seattle Seahawks organization and my teammates. I am a young man who made a mistake and am constantly working towards getting better.”
Carroll expressed hope McDowell, who he said seemed “very remorseful” in their meeting, would learn from this experience and become a valuable member of the team going forward.
“He got in a situation and made a mistake and hopefully this will be a learning experience for him. I don’t know much more than that about it,” Carroll told the Seattle Times Wednesday. “… I know he felt really bad representing in that manner. … I think we’re definitely going work to help him in every way that we can.
“We’ve already talked about that, and let’s hope that this isn’t an indicator of things to come. I hope that he has turned with this experience. He sounds very much intending to do that, and we’ll see what happens.”




