Richie Incognito

 ( 1983 Births ) 

In 2011, the Dolphins re-signed Incognito, this time to a three-year deal. Incognito started 15 games and allowed just 1.5 sacks on the year.

Incognito started all 16 games of the 2012 season at the left guard position. Incognito made his first of four National Football League Pro Bowl appearances after the 2012 season.Poupart, Alain. (1-15-2013) Scout.com Retrieved January 16, 2013 Incognito also won the 2012 Good Guy Award alongside teammate Reggie Bush. The award is given out by the Pro Football Writers Association in each NFL city to the player(s) who best helps the media do its job.

On November 3, 2013, the Dolphins suspended Incognito for conduct detrimental to the team following his supposed harassment of teammate Jonathan Martin, a claim vociferously denied by Incognito. On February 4, 2014, Incognito's suspension was lifted. More than a decade later, Martin admitted publicly that his claims against Incognito and numerous other Dolphins' players and coaches were highly overstated, and had been pushed by his own mother. While still saying that he had received messages of a racial nature at the time, he clarified that he had never felt bullied, explaining that he "was not well" at the time, apparently referencing his own mental state. Incognito responded with sharp public criticism of the media, which he accused of pushing a lie against him at the time of the controversy.

A day after the Bills lost 10–3 against the Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC Wild Card round, Jaguars' defensive end Yannick Ngakoue accused Incognito of using racial slurs against him during the game. Following the season's end, Incognito announced his intent to retire, noting that a recent doctor's visit had revealed he was suffering from liver and kidney failure, which he attributed to stress. Incognito also expressed dissatisfaction with a contract restructuring that would have kept him with the Bills in 2018, noting that he had given the Bills until April 15 to give him an offer worthy of his putting off his retirement for one more season.

Two days later, the Bills officially placed Incognito on the reserve/retired list. On April 13, 2018, Incognito announced he had had a change of heart and would show up to offseason workouts on April 16, 2018. He failed to arrive for the workouts, and the Bills continued to list him as retired. He indicated that he refused to play for the Bills and demanded he be released from his contract; the Bills responded that he would have to contact league commissioner Roger Goodell if he wanted to be removed from the retired list. On May 21, 2018, the Bills released Incognito from the reserve/retired list.

On December 30, 2019, the Raiders signed Incognito to a two-year, $14 million contract extension.

On September 23, 2020, Incognito was placed on injured reserve with an Achilles injury. On November 23, 2020, he underwent season-ending foot surgery. He appeared in two games in the 2020 season. He was released after the season on March 9, 2021, and re-signed to a new contract on March 24, 2021.

On September 25, 2021, Incognito was placed on injured reserve after missing the first two games with a calf strain.

Schefter and Chris Mortensen reported on ESPN on November 3 that Martin feared "retribution, primarily from Incognito." The article went on to state that "the matter is absolutely under review and preliminarily identifies Incognito as an alleged offender in multiple incidents of possible harassment and bullying over the past two seasons, with Martin not the only victim." Schefter and Mortensen also cited unnamed sources that one of the significant allegations was an incident during the summer of 2013 when Incognito got Martin to contribute $15,000 to help finance a trip to Las Vegas by a group of Dolphins, even though Martin preferred not to, "fearing the consequences if he did not hand over the money."

On November 3, Mike Garafolo reported on Fox Sports 1 that Incognito was alleged to have sent Martin threatening and racially charged messages. He also reported that the team and league—rather than the players' association—had been asked to investigate. That same day, Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports reported that Incognito "has had to be reprimanded in the past for his actions toward team employees," citing an unnamed source. La Canfora and Schefter subsequently reported statements from an unnamed source that the team and the league had gotten possession of highly disturbing texts and voicemails in which Incognito used a racial slur against Martin, and disturbing text and voice exchanges including "a reference to tracking down members of Martin's family and harming them", and even threatening to kill Martin. According to La Canfora, Incognito's alleged harassment of Martin had reached the point that Martin feared for his safety, and felt leaving the team was his only option.

Just hours after the Dolphins' game against the Cincinnati Bengals, the Dolphins suspended Incognito indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the team. The Dolphins also asked the NFL to join their own internal investigation of the matter. According to Schefter, the final straw for the Dolphins was a highly graphic voicemail Incognito left in April 2013, in which Incognito called Martin a "half-nigger piece of shit," threatened to slap Martin's mother across the face, and uttered a death threat against Martin. Until then, the Dolphins had publicly maintained the charges against Incognito were pure speculation. Schefter said that as late as the afternoon of November 3, the Dolphins didn't even know the voicemail existed. Within hours of hearing the tape, Schefter said, the Dolphins had suspended Incognito. The next day, a Dolphins source told The Miami Herald that Incognito would never play another down for the Dolphins again, and that the team intended to cut ties with him at the earliest opportunity.

On November 5, the (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel quoted "multiple sources" as saying that Incognito may have taken orders from Dolphins coaches to "toughen up" Martin too far. The Sun-Sentinel reported that the controversial voice mail message that ultimately led to Incognito's suspension was made after Martin missed two days of the team's voluntary workout program. The coaches asked Incognito—by this time, reckoned as the leader of the offensive line—to make a call that would "get him (Martin) into the fold." On November 7, reports emerged that Miami GM Jeff Ireland reacted to the allegations by suggesting that Martin punch Incognito – however, rather than take things that far, Martin chose to leave the team.

Under the NFL's collective bargaining agreement, Incognito was initially slated to sit out for a maximum of four weeks. At the end of that time, the Dolphins would have had to either release him or find some way to keep him off the field, given earlier statements that he would never appear in a Dolphins uniform again. However, the league and the Dolphins agreed to extend the suspension for another two weeks with pay. On December 16, the league and the Dolphins announced that Incognito would remain suspended for the remainder of the season.

On February 3, 2014, the text messages exchanged between Martin and Incognito were leaked. It is thought that "the leak came from Incognito or someone close to him, because the text messages tend to support the notion that Incognito and Martin were friends. Moreover, nothing in the Incognito text messages suggests harassment or bullying of Martin." On February 4, 2014, Incognito's 3-month long suspension ended.

The report also concluded that Incognito, Jerry, and Pouncey made severe towards the assistant trainer, and Incognito and Jerry taunted him by saying that they had sex with his girlfriend. On December 7, 2012, the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Incognito, Jerry and Pouncey donned Hachimaki featuring a rising sun emblem (which the assistant trainer had given them) and jokingly threatened to harm the assistant trainer physically in retaliation for the Pearl Harbor attack. The assistant trainer, who is from Japan, confided in Martin that he was upset about the Pearl Harbor comments, finding them derogatory toward his heritage.

Further, the report concluded regarding Martin's "mental health problems, alcohol and drug use and... concerns about poor performance on the field" that "his text messages and other evidence demonstrate that these are real factors, not issues Incognito has manufactured out of whole cloth." The report noted a published newspaper report regarding Martin's difficulties with the position change the Dolphins made with him days before he left the team and alleged harassment. The Miami Herald noted that the Dolphins were concerned about Martin's reaction to the move, and noted that "It was clear Martin isn't thrilled about the move." "You can approach this two different ways," Martin said. "You can go in the tank and be one of those guys who bitches and moans and is a cancer in the locker room, or you can be a guy who goes out there and can be a professional and plays as hard as I can."

After sitting out the 2014 season, Rex Ryan and the Buffalo Bills signed Incognito for the 2015 season with the intent to "build a bully". According to teammate Eric Wood, Incognito was seen as an "ultimate professional" and "quickly became a locker room favorite". Incognito re-elevated his game and helped the Buffalo Bills lead the league in rushing yards and yards-per-carry.

Prior to the 2016 season, Incognito sat down with Colin Cowherd for an interview on the radio show The Herd where he talked about his relationship with Jonathan Martin since the bullying scandal stating their relationship ended that day, and that "You learn from it you move on".