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Super Bowl Champion & Convicted Serial Rapist Darren Sharper Gets Major Prison Update

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This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.

New Orleans Saints safety Darren Sharper in uniform
New Orleans Saints safety Darren Sharper (Matt Stamey-Imagn Images)

Ex-NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced to a 20-year prison term for a series of sexual assaults across four states. He pleaded guilty and no contest to charges of drugging and raping multiple women. Sharper admitted to assaulting women in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Louisiana.

The cases played out in court years after Sharper won a Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints in February 2010. His allegations surfaced after his 2014 arrest in Los Angeles. That is where investigators said he drugged and sexually assaulted women he met at nightclubs.

He received an 18-year federal sentence in Louisiana and a 20-year sentence in California, served concurrently. At the time, he was given credit for 2,017 days already served. He was housed at a federal correctional institution in Elkton, Ohio. The former Super Bowl champion is no longer there.

Darren Sharper Gets Moved To a Halfway House

Former NFL safety Darren Sharper appears in a Los Angeles Superior courtroom Thursday, February 20, 2014, pleading not guilty to charges of drugging and raping a pair of women he allegedly met at a West Hollywood nightclub. Sharper’s bail has been increased from $200,000 to $1 million. AFP PHOTO / Pool / Bob Chamberlin (Photo credit should read Bob Chamberlin/AFP via Getty Images)

Sharper, a former Saints player, has been transferred. The admitted serial rapist has been transferred from federal prison to a halfway house in Baltimore.

The purpose of a halfway house is to serve as a transitional bridge between prison and full independence.

Court documents obtained by the Guardian show Darren Sharper was taken from a federal correctional institution near Elkton, Ohio, to “community confinement.” Being sent to a halfway house program is an indication of nearing the completion of a sentence. Documents show he is set to be released in 2028.

Sharper played for the Green Bay Packers from 1997 to 2004, the Minnesota Vikings from 2005 to 2008, and the New Orleans Saints from 2009 to 2010. He was on the Saints team that won Super Bowl XLIV in February 2010.

Over his 14-year NFL career, Sharper recorded 949 total tackles, 63 interceptions, 13 defensive touchdowns, and 7.5 sacks across 208 regular-season games.

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