Former NFL running back and Alabama prep star Zac Stacy was sentenced to six months in jail and one year of probation on Monday night, WESH-TV in Orlando, Florida, reported.

Stacy was sentenced in Orange County, Florida. He had pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal mischief after being caught on video striking the mother of his son.

Orlando police arrested Stacy in November 2021 after viewing a video that showed Stacy manhandling the woman in the presence of their 5-month-old child.

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According to the police report, Stacy “struck (Kristin Evans) on the right side of her head and picked her up and threw her against the television, causing it to crack and fall over. … He continued yelling at her and striking her while she got up from the floor and picked her up again and threw her into the baby’s bouncy chair. … While she was still on the floor pleading for him to stop, he picked her up and body-slammed her onto a baby walker, causing the object to break.”

Stacy was charged with aggravated battery and criminal mischief. The battery charge was dropped in exchange for Stacy’s guilty plea, WESH reported.

At the time of his arrest, Stacy told police that Evans had baited him into reacting to record it on video.

“It’s unfortunate because I just got out of rehab for anxiety and depression, like, eight months ago,” Stacy said. “I dropped everything to come down here and support the mother of my child in her last trimester and the baby. I let her know I wasn’t trying to be with her or nothing like that. This is a case of just bitterness. That’s why she did this. The whole assault thing, she staged it. She set me up. …

“I wasn’t allowed to see my child because when I’d come over to the house, I’m disrespectful if I don’t acknowledge her, whatever that means. The whole thing was staged. All she’s trying to do is get money out of it. She got a reaction out of me. She knew I was down. She knew I was going through anxiety and depression. She knew I was trying to close the gap between me and my son. She’s just upset because she got caught, and she’s upset I’m not taking care of her like she thought, and now she took it this far.”

Stacy was an All-State running back for Bibb County High School in 2008, when the Choctaws posted a 9-1 regular-season record and lost to Lincoln in the second round of the AHSAA Class 4A playoffs.

At Vanderbilt, Stacy set a school record with 3,143 rushing yards before the St. Louis Rams selected him in the fifth round of the 2013 NFL Draft.

Stacy carried the ball once for 4 yards in the Rams’ first four games of his rookie season, but he came on to finish the 2013 campaign with 973 yards and seven touchdowns on the ground.

After the Rams drafted running backs Tre Mason from Auburn in 2014 and Todd Gurley from Georgia in 2015 in successive years, they traded Stacy to the Jets.

Stacy had rushed 31 times for 89 yards and a touchdown in his first season with the Jets when he broke his ankle against the Buffalo Bills on Nov. 12, 2015, in what turned out to be his final NFL game. New York released Stacy on July 27, 2016, the day that players reported for training camp.

Stacy announced his retirement on Feb. 16, 2017, but he tried two comebacks.

In 2018, Stacy played in the preseason for the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, but he did not make the regular-season roster.

In 2019, Stacy played for the Alliance of American Football’s Memphis Express and was the league’s first player to rush for 100 yards in a game. He was on injured reserve when the AAF folded before completing its first season.

In his NFL career, Stacy ran for 1,355 yards and nine touchdowns on 357 carries, caught 53 passes for 358 yards and one touchdown and returned 10 kickoffs for a 20.4-yard average in 35 games.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.