Inside the rise and fall of Jay Cutler after former NFL quarterback was arrested for DUI and gun possession

Jay Cutler's arrest for DUI and weapon possession connected Friday is but the latest section successful the erstwhile NFL quarterback's melodramatic beingness connected and disconnected the field.

Cutler, 41, was jailed connected Thursday aft helium was stopped portion allegedly driving intoxicated with 2 firearms (including a loaded pistol) according to a constabulary study seen by DailyMail.com.

However, from his up-and-down playing vocation - mostly spent with the Chicago Bears - to his high-profile divorcement from Kristin Cavallari, it's acold from the archetypal clip that Cutler has made headlines.

Beginning with his playing career, Cutler entered the NFL arsenic an extremely-hyped endowment aft being drafted No. 11 wide by the Broncos successful 2006.

The young passer had immoderate occurrence successful Denver aft taking implicit the starting backmost occupation - adjacent being named to his archetypal and past Pro Bowl successful 2008.

But helium and newly-hired caput manager Josh McDaniels didn't spot eye-to-eye - arsenic McDaniels wanted to bring successful Patriots passer Matt Cassel.

'...He was fundamentally telling maine that helium came to Denver due to the fact that helium wanted to manager maine and that we needed to spot each other,' Cutler told ESPN at the clip successful a reasonably explosive interview. 'He's ne'er been captious to me. But spot now? How tin I spot him now?' 

From there, it was onto the Bears, wherever the gunslinging Cutler grew a estimation for his at-times apathetic property and penchant for throwing interceptions.

There was occurrence arsenic well, arsenic helium threw 154 touchdowns crossed 8 seasons with the squad and compiled an precisely .500 grounds of 51-51.

But possibly the astir memorable infinitesimal from his clip successful Chicago was from the NFC Championship Game, erstwhile helium exited the crippled with a genu injury.

It was aboriginal revealed that Cutler had a sprained MCL, but the passer's toughness was wide questioned by fans and adjacent his chap players aft Chicago's nonaccomplishment to Green Bay successful 2011.

Two years aft that, Cutler and Cavallari were married.

The mates initially met successful 2010 and were unneurotic until 2020, welcoming sons Camden and Jaxon and girl Saylor.

However, aft astir a decennary together, they were divorced, with erstwhile 'The Hills' prima Cavallari saying Cutler was 'guilty of specified inappropriate marital behaviour arsenic renders further cohabitation unsafe and improper' successful a filing.

And that would not beryllium the extremity of the play successful Cutler's idiosyncratic life.

In 2022, In Touch Weekly reported that Cutler was caught 'hooking up' with his adjacent friend's woman connected a household vacation.

The work reported that Cavallari was made of the alert by the husband, who 'confronted' Cutler astir the affair.

Cutler has since moved connected with woman Samantha Robertson, whom he's been dating for implicit a year, portion Cavallari, 37, precocious ended a narration with the much-younger Mark Estes.

The 24-year-old TikToker and Cavallari dated for 7 months, but the influencer intelligibly made rather the content connected her, arsenic she said connected her 'Let's Be Honest' podcast that helium was the 'best sex' she'd ever had.

'I've fto each of that spell and I deliberation I americium much contiguous physically during enactment than I've ever been,' she said. 'And, I'm truthful wildly attracted to you. And, I conscionable deliberation we person truly blistery sex.'

That narration has since ended, portion the quality of her co-parenting statement with Cutler has changed arsenic well.

Speaking erstwhile again connected her podcast earlier this period she said that her custody statement with Cutler had changed implicit the past year.

'I'm truly blessed and truly contented having my beingness close present being astir my kids and work. Happiness for maine is peace, and bid for maine is making this location precisely however I privation it. I'm a homebody — I truly am,' she said connected her podcast.

She did not springiness reasons arsenic to wherefore the custody statement changed but Cutler's apprehension - which followed a insignificant postulation collision successful downtown Franklin, Tennessee - surely won't assistance successful immoderate imaginable efforts to re-increase his custody.

He was released from the Williamson County Jail aboriginal connected Thursday aft posting a $5,000 bond.