Jameis Winston falling on NFL Draft boards, according to report

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, the 2013 Heisman Trophy winner and college football’s most famous accused rapist, may be worrying some potential future employers. On Fox Sports’ Sunday NFL coverage, Jay Glazer reported that Winston is falling on some NFL teams’ draft boards.

“Every general manager I talked to this week said, ‘we are either dropping Jameis Winston down, or we really have to consider whether we want him in our locker room,’” Glazer said in the on-camera report. Here’s more:

Additionally, due to possible rule changes involving sanctions against teams, franchises that employ players with off-field issues could have draft picks taken away, further diminishing the prospects for rookies-to-be like Winston.

Glazer’s report comes in the wake of Friday’s exclusive report by FOX Sports that revealed a cover-up by the university and local police. Florida State officials late on Friday decided to bypass the normal process for conducting a student-code-of-conduct investigation in Winston’s case and will send the case to an independent arbiter.

This news comes on the heels of a report by Sports Illustrated that suggests Winston may need to drop out of Florida State in order to avoid legal scrutiny that may lead to sexual assault charges from the alleged incident in 2012. Winston was also named several times in The New York Times’ extensive report on seemingly preferential treatment for Florida State football players by Tallahassee law enforcement.

Florida State’s only measure of punishment against Winston thus far is to remove him for one game in Week 3 after he got on a table in a crowded campus cafeteria and yelled “f*ck her right in the p****” so everybody could hear him.

A Title IX investigation into Florida State’s handling of Winston’s behavior is ongoing. He is still active with the team as the starting quarterback.