{"id":277723,"date":"2025-10-04T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277723\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:19:10","slug":"ex-jets-qb-mark-sanchez-stabbed-in-indianapolis-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277723\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Jets QB Mark Sanchez stabbed in Indianapolis, hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez is in stable condition after reportedly being stabbed Saturday morning in downtown Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, 38, was in the city to broadcast the Colts\u2019 game against the Raiders for Fox on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark Sanchez was injured in Indianapolis on Saturday and is currently recovering in the hospital in stable condition,\u201d Fox Sports PR said on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply grateful to the medical team for their exceptional care and support. Our thoughts and prayers are with Mark, and we ask that everyone please respect his and his family\u2019s privacy during this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37294670\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/former-new-york-jets-mark-16580030.jpg\" alt=\"Former New York Jets player Mark Sanchez at a New York Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles game.\" class=\"wp-image-37294670\"  \/>Mark Sanchez is pictured at the Yankees Orioles game in May 2022. Corey Sipkin for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.41046832;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37294680\" width=\"832\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6-new-york-jets-jets-41817156.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Sanchez wearing a red New York Jets practice jersey with number 6.\" class=\"wp-image-37294680\"  \/>Mark Sanchez is pictured during the Jets\u2019 training camp in 2010. JEFF ZELEVANSKY<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s unclear what led to the incident, police were called around 12:30 a.m. regarding two injured people \u2013 and Sanchez was taken to a local hospital with \u201ccritical injuries,\u201d according to TMZ, which first reported the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, the No. 5 overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, spent four seasons with the Jets, where he earned the nickname \u201cThe Sanchize\u201d for helping lead Gang Green to two consecutive AFC Championship game appearances his first two years in the league.<\/p>\n<p>He also played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys and former Washington Redskins before moving to his broadcasting career.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez also scored outside the gridiron, dating supermodel\u00a0Kate Upton and actress Eva Longoria before settling down and marrying actress Perry Mattfeld in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More to come on this developing story\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez is in stable condition after reportedly being stabbed Saturday morning in downtown Indianapolis.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2862,143585,5287,1232,62,1486,3581,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-277723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-indiana","9":"tag-mark-sanchez","10":"tag-new-york-jets","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-entertainment","14":"tag-sports-media","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115317281212705163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}