<table> </table> Chicago Bears fans wish <strong>Cedric Benson </strong>had been this hard to bring down last season.</p><p>Benson, a running back who played for Texas, was charged with failing a sobriety test while operating a 30-foot boat and then resisting arrest before being hit with pepper spray and dragged ashore by officers.</p><p>Benson (right, in police mug shot) faces charges of boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest after the incident Saturday night on Lake Travis in Austin, Texas.</p><p>Benson was released from jail early Sunday on a $14,500 bond. The charges are class B misdemeanors, each punishable by up to six months in jail and a $2,000 fine.</p><p>Benson was operating the boat with 15 passengers aboard when he was stopped by a Lower Colorado River Authority officer for a random safety inspection. He failed a field sobriety test on the officer&#8217;s boat and was uncooperative when the officer tried to take him ashore, the authority said.</p><p>&#8220;When Benson did not pass the test, he presented himself as a threat to the officer and argued about whether or not he would be taken to land to have a follow-up field sobriety test performed on land and refused to put on a life jacket,&#8221; the authority said in a statement.</p><p>The officer had to use pepper spray to subdue Benson.