Over the weekend, former NFL quarterback and current Fox Sports commentator Mark Sanchez was stabbed during an altercation in Indianapolis.
Sanchez was in town to call the Colts-Raiders game and according to authorities got into a fight with a 69-year-old truck driver.
Here's what the New York Post reported:
Grisly photos of the alleged victim showed him in a neck brace in his hospital bed with gnarly, deep wounds to his cheek and jaw.
“His family says he was cut in the fight and it went through his cheek and hit his tongue,” Fox59 anchor Angela Ganote said, sharing the pictures on social media.
The driver reportedly got into an altercation with Sanchez shortly after midnight on Saturday morning, when he had parked his truck in an alley to collect cooking oil from a nearby hotel, according to an affidavit seen by Fox59.
There are multiple surveillance videos of the incident, and prosecutors have already said multiple witnesses have come forward. It's alleged that Sanchez climbed into the victim's truck and stopped the driver from calling for help before the altercation turned physical. The New York Post reported that Sanchez was apparently doing sprints in the alley when the victim parked his truck to collect grease from a restaurant.
"He's trying to kill me," the man reportedly told police, and that fear is what prompted him to stab Sanchez, who was hospitalized for his injuries. Sanchez later told police he had no memory of the incident.
While hospitalized, Sanchez was arrested for multiple misdemeanors in relation to this incident, and now ABC News is reporting he's also facing a felony charge of battery.
Fox Sports commentator Mark Sanchez, who was arrested for multiple misdemeanors following a physical altercation this weekend, is now facing a felony charge of battery involving serious bodily injury, prosecutors in Indianapolis announced. https://t.co/e8Az43TILg
— ABC News (@ABC) October 6, 2025
Former NFL quarterback and current Fox Sports color commentator Mark Sanchez, who was arrested for multiple misdemeanors following a physical altercation this weekend, is now facing a felony charge of battery involving serious bodily injury, prosecutors in Indianapolis announced.
The more serious charge was added after investigators learned of the seriousness of the victim's injuries, Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said at a news conference on Monday.
“This was a situation that did not need to occur,” Mears said.
"The allegations involve a 38-year-old man becoming involved in an altercation with a 69-year-old man who sustained significant and very serious injuries" over a dispute about parking, Mears said.
Mears didn't rule out the possibility of additional charges, saying his office is still in "the early stages of this investigation."
It should be noted that Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears is the same prosecutor who recently downgraded an attempted murder charge against Courtney Boose, a man with 99 prior arrests, to "aggravated battery."
Make no mistake: if Sanchez is guilty, he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. The injuries he allegedly inflicted on the 69-year-old victim are horrific. Yet it will be interesting to see how this prosecution unfolds, given the other prosecutorial choices Mears has recently made.
Sanchez was released from the hospital yesterday and immediately taken to jail, where he posted his $300 cash bond.