Former NFL player Kevin Ware Jr. has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for brutally murdering his girlfriend and then setting fire to her corpse.

Ware, 41, a former tight end for the Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers, reached a deal on Wednesday with the prosecution in exchange for pleading guilty to the 2021 murder of his 29-year-old girlfriend Taylor Pomaski.

Pomaski disappeared under suspicious circumstances after she was last seen at a party at her home in Houston, Texas, on April 25, 2021,NBC Houstonreported. 4 Former NFL player Kevin Ware Jr. stares at the camera in a mugshot from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Harris County Sheriff's Office 4 Taylor Pomaski was last seen at her Texas home on April 25, 2021. Coutesy Pomaski family 4 Kevin Ware Jr. is escorted through the halls of a courthouse while handcuffed. KTRK 4 Ware carries the ball during a game for the Washington Huskies against the Oregon Ducks on Sept. 30, 2000. Getty Images

Her remains were found in December 2021.

Ware had “cut her with a knife, hit her with a blunt object, strangled her and then burned her corpse,” court documents revealed.

He was indicted for murder and tampering with a corpse in connection with Pomaski’s death on July 28, 2021.