A deadly car accident involving Miami edge rusher Rueben Bain Jr. became public through reporting by Ollie Connolly, who cited police and court records showing Bain was at fault in a March 2024 crash that killed a young woman.
Those documents said Bain was cited for reckless driving after the wreck, but the charge was dropped several weeks later. No field sobriety test was administered at the scene, according to the records Connolly cited.
The reporting matters now because Bain is a draft prospect, and the crash has landed in the middle of a broader argument over what should be published when a player’s past is already sitting in public records. A follow-up report said Bain later settled a lawsuit with the driver of the vehicle struck in the accident, and the young woman who died was a passenger in that car.
On Thursday, Todd McShay weighed in on the Stugotz and Company show and attacked the timing of Connolly’s reporting. He said he learned about the incident in mid-January and that NFL teams were already aware of it, had vetted it and were not hearing it for the first time. McShay also said Bain “was the heartbeat of that program” and argued that the pass rusher’s short arms would matter more to his draft slot than the accident.
McShay’s criticism centered less on the facts of the crash than on whether they needed to be surfaced publicly when teams had already reviewed them. He said he knew several respected insiders had the information, that it was not indicative of who Bain is as a person and that the main concern was whether anything else might still come up later.
The timeline adds another layer. In October 2025, Bain was cited for careless driving in a second accident, according to the verified reporting. And while many NFL reporters have since checked Connolly’s account against the public documents he cited, the debate now is not over whether the records exist. It is over what those records should mean for a player whose draft stock will be judged on football first and whose past is now part of the public record around him.