The first 10 words of this NPR lede tell us all we need to know about this sad tale

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The text box displays the first 10 words from Former Cleveland Browns QB Johnny Manziel Is Indicted On Assault Charge.  (NPR, 4/26/2016)

Related reading:
In Johnny Manziel, Failure as Entertainment.  (The New York Times, 4/24/2016)

Prescient. “Yeah, it could come unraveled,” Manziel’s father, Paul, told ESPN the Magazine in 2013. “And when it does, it’s gonna be bad. Real bad.”

A different reading in the print headline:  In Manziel, a Draft  Machine's Human Cost.