Lawyer: Charges against Michael Bennett are 'ludicrous'

Michael Bennett's lawyer doesn't seem too concerned with the injury to the elderly charge pending against his client.

Bennett faces a felony charge of injury to the elderly and is accused of forcing his way through security to get onto the field for Super Bowl LI postgame celebrations at NRG Stadium in Houston with his brother Martellus and the New England Patriots, in the process pushing a 66-year-old paraplegic security worker.

Bennett's lawyer, Rusty Hardin, said there's nothing to be concerned about.

"There was no fighting, there was no pushing," Hardin said, according to Zack Rosenblatt of NJ Advance Media. "The entire thing is ludicrous. That's what I think we'll find when it's all over."

Bennett's has been spending the early part of the offseason at home in Hawaii after turning himself into police roughly two weeks ago and has been trying to stay out of the spotlight while the legal situation plays out.

"He knows he didn't do this," Hardin said. "He's assuming the system will ultimately conclude that once they get all the information. But it's obviously a very embarrassing and humiliating thing to go through, walking out of a court room with a bunch of TV cameras and in handcuffs, particularly for something you didn't even do."