Exclusive | Mike Vrabels son Tyler busted for reckless driving weeks after cheating scandal broke
Mike Vrabel’s son Tyler was busted for reckless driving in Tennessee just weeks after the alleged affair between his dad and reporter Dianna Russini made headlines.Tyler Vrabel, 26 — an offensive line coach at Boston College who had a brief stint in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons — was charged with reckless driving, speeding and driving with an expired registration after getting pulled over in Brentwood in Williamson County on May 9, according to police records reviewed by The Post.He was allegedly driving his black Ford F-150 truck at 71 mph in a 45 mph zone at around 8:15 a.m., the responding officer wrote in a criminal complaint.“The truck was speeding past houses and other vehicles recklessly,” Brentwood officer Aaron Yoder said in the affidavit.
When Yoder pulled Tyler over, the younger Vrabel allegedly handed over a registration that expired in December 2024.Charges against Tyler, an offensive line consultant and assistant coach at his alma mater, were filed on May 21, according to online records.He was hit with nearly $1,000 in fines from the incident including a $250 fee for taking a blood alcohol test, records show.Tyler — Mike Vrabel’s older of two children with his wife Jen — and the Brentwood Police Department did not return requests for comment.
It is not clear if he has entered a plea.The incident came amid a frenzy around his father’s affair with Russini, a former sports reporter at The Athletic.The scandal broke in April after damning snaps published by Page Six pictured the older Vrabel and Russini — both married to other people — cozied up together at a luxury hotel in Sedona, Ariz.Both fiercely denied that there was anything romantic going on between them, but more photos of them enjoying trips together and kissing over the span of years continued to emerge.
Ironically, Russini — who resigned from The Athletic amid the scandal — bragged about using her connections to NFL coaches to get out of a traffic ticket on a Fe...