Former defensive back Wilson Jr. dead at 40

Former Detroit Lions defensive back Stanley Wilson Jr. collapsed and died while being checked into a mental hospital earlier this month, the team confirmed on Wednesday.

He was 40.

Wilson was being transferred from a Los Angeles jail, where he’d been held since an August vandalism arrest, to the mental health facility after being declared incompetent to stand trial, TMZ reported.

In August he had allegedly broken into a $30 million Hollywood Hills mansion twice. The second time he caused $5,000 worth of damage, TMZ reported at the time, by taking a bath in the outdoor fountain with soap he found inside the house.

Arrested both times, he was charged on two felony counts of vandalism and one count of second-degree burglary, TMZ reported. Authorities then determined that he was unfit to stand trial due to his mental health condition.

Before those troubles, Wilson played college football at Stanford University. The Lions tapped him in the third round of the 2005 draft. Over three seasons and 32 career games in Detroit, he logged 63 tackles and one forced fumble. He played with the Lions from 2005-07 until his career was cut short by an Achilles injury, and he was released in 2008.

He had reportedly struggled with drug use after his

NFL exit and had a history of breaking into homes, stripping and bathing naked in backyard fountains. In June 2016 he was shot by an Oregon homeowner after attempting to break in, and police found Wilson bathing out back.

Wilson was involved in similar incidents twice in 2017, with police finding him naked outside another Oregon home in January. The next month, the former player tried to force his way into yet another home, emerging naked from a shed when police arrived.

Wilson’s father is ex-Bengals running back Stanley Wilson Sr., who had his own drug-based run-ins with the law and notoriously missed Super Bowl XXIII in 1989 due to a cocaine relapse.