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Ex-Bengal Antwan Odom among 15 former NFL players convicted in $2.5 million fraud scheme

All 15 former players charged in a scheme to defraud an NFL healthcare benefit program, including former Bengal Antwan Odom, have now pleaded guilty, prosecutors said.

Odom, a defensive end who played for the Bengals from 2008 to 2010, pleaded guilty last year to charges related to the scheme, which prosecutors say defrauded the program out of $2.5 million.

Former Washington running back Clinton Portis and former Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tamarick Vanover on Friday became the most recent ex-players to be convicted.

Portis, 40, and Vanover, 47, pleaded guilty in federal court in Lexington to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, the U.