News about Derek Wolfe

Derek Wolfe, a former NFL defensive end, announced he played just two weeks after being temporarily paralyzed while a Denver Broncos player. Wolfe bruised his spinal cord after a violent football game with the Broncos in August 2013, leaving him temporarily paralyzed before returning to the gridiron shortly.

After posting a picture of himself with a mountain lion that he killed with a bow and arrow, former NFL player Derek Wolfe told Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Monday that he is being harassed online. 'I can't believe this is happening to me,' Carlson said, referring to the suspected assault that he said he was receiving for the criminal hunt. After the animal 'wreaked mayhem' in a Colorado neighborhood, killing two dogs and a mule deer, the former Denver Broncos defensive end said he had been asked to hunt it. Despite the skepticism, local authorities have reported to TMZ that he took all the necessary steps before lion hunting and is in 'good standing' with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Department.

Despite the Super Bowl champion's online mockery, Colorado authorities have confirmed that Derek Wolfe followed all the required protocols before killing a mountain lion. Wolfe outlined how he hunted and killed the lion using a bow and arrow before falling ten feet off a rockface with the 195lb carcass. Since the animal 'wreaked mayhem' in a Colorado neighborhood, killing two dogs and a mule deer, the former Denver Broncos defensive end said he had been asked to hunt it. The 32-year-old described killing the beast with a bow and arrow in a Instagram picture of him holding its carcass of the huge cat.

After the animal had been "wreaking mayhem in a rural neighborhood" in Colorado, the former defensive end revealed it. Wolfe wrote in his article that the mountain lion had already killed two dogs and a mule deer, and the woman who had ordered his assistance was reportedly 'nervous about what it might do next.' He said he was 'exhausted, dehydrated, and cramped after finding the deer, which he suspected the big cat had killed.' However, he eventually discovered the creature, saying he pulled back his bow and shot it with an arrow.