Keith McCants, once a feared defensive player in the NFL and an All-American coming out of the University of Alabama, is now reportedly in constant physical agony because of football injuries.

McCants, 43, walks with a cane and has been diagnosed with clinical depression and early stages of dementia. It has been reported that sometimes, he can’t recognize family members.

McCants was a first-round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and was given a $7.4 million contract and the largest signing bonus ever given a rookie defender.

McCants, who has a wife in his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, moved back to the bay area within the past year. He also had been entered into a drug rehabilitation program.

In December, McCants was arrested after police said he was found leaving an exotic dance club with a crack cocaine pipe on the console of his car. His female passenger had cocaine in her purse, police said.

In February, as McCants removed identification from his pocket during a police stop, the officer said she notice a plastic wrapper of cocaine. When she tried to handcuff McCants, he pulled away and fled.

Last week, McCants pleaded guilty in both cases. The judge withheld adjudication, sentencing him to the 16 days he had served. He remains jailed on a warrant from Mobile, where authorities said he didn’t appear in court last year on a controlled substance charge.