September was the first month no NFL players were arrested in over six years

The NFL has gone a calendar month without any arrests for the first time in more than six years.

Mike Rosenberg, a part-time reporter for Reuters in Seattle, tweeted the statistics which have since been widely circulated on 1 October, following the league's achievement in September.

If you take NBCSports' database for such incidents, the record since August 2009 looks like this:

Either way, well done to all players in the NFL for achieving a month on the right side of the law.

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