The Las Vegas Raiders are going into the 2025 NFL Season with a completely new regime. The addition of both Pete Carroll and Geno Smith completely changed their offense in one off-season. However, it is a former Raiders star who is seeing his life flipped upside down.
Breaking: Former Raiders Star Receives 30-Year Prison Sentence
US Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Kevin Ware Jr. in 2021 after he fled after his ex-girlfriend disappeared:
His girlfriend, Taylor Pomaski, was reported missing by family members in May 2021, weeks after she was seen at her own April 25th house party. At the time, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said she went missing “under very suspicious circumstances and may be the victim of foul play.”
Witnesses reported a violent fight between the couple during a get-together at his Klein-area home. She disappeared, and Ware stopped showing up for court appearances.
Around that same time, Eric Zuleger, a longtime friend of Pomaski, told ABC13 that before her disappearance, Pomaski had made an outcry for help, saying, “She was in danger, and she was in trouble. There was violence; she referenced a gun being pulled on her. She was very scared, very nervous.”
Pomaski’s remains were found dumped in a ditch in Harris County in December 2021.
Fast forward to 2025, and Kevin Ware is now being punished for his actions.
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Ware has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for brutally murdering his girlfriend and then setting fire to her corpse, per Click 2 Houston. Ware had “cut her with a knife, hit her with a blunt object, strangled her and then burned her corpse,” court documents revealed.
Pomaski’s ex-boyfriend said he believed she was in an abusive and toxic relationship at the time she disappeared.
Her family is expected to give victim impact statements on Monday.
On Wednesday, Kevin Ware agreed to a plea bargain and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the death of 29-year-old Taylor Pomaski.
Ware played football at Klein Oak High School before playing at the University of Washington. He would go undrafted in the 2003 NFL Draft, but later that same year he signed with the Washington Redskins.
He played 11 games for them before he was waived in the summer of 2004, and was signed by the San Francisco 49ers the following month.
Overall, he played just five games for the 49ers before signing with the Oakland Raiders, although he never actually suited up for them.
