The university discipline process is more or less complete for those 10 Minnesota players who were suspended in December amid a school sexual assault investigation. Half have since been reinstated, three have already left, and two more could decide to contest the school’s decision elsewhere.
What happened to those 10 suspended Minnesota Gophers players?
Half have been reinstated, but at least three are gone from the school.
Days before 2016’s Holiday Bowl against Washington State, the Gophers announced they’d boycott the game unless the suspended 10 were reinstated and given what the team felt to be a fair hearing. The team dropped the boycott after reading the school’s horrifying incident report. Head coach Tracy Claeys, who’d unconditionally announced his support for his players in a too-brief statement, was fired weeks later.
Have won appeals and been reinstated
- Seth Green, redshirt freshman QB
- Kobe McCrary, senior RB
- Antonio Shenault, junior DB
- Mark Williams, redshirt freshman QB (listed as WR)
- Antoine Winfield Jr., sophomore DB
McCrary, Williams, and Winfield will join the team at spring practice after the university provost ruled in their favor to complete their appeals process. The other two had already been reinstated.
The woman sought to keep in place a one-year suspension for Winfield and McCrary, per the Pioneer Press.
“I thought all those kids did all the right things off the field, when the whole investigation was going,” new head coach P.J. Fleck said. “They were in class, they were where they were supposed to be there, and I thought they handled everything with class.”
Winfield, whose NFL retiree father called in December for university admin removal, wrote on Twitter:
These couple of months have been nothing short of a nightmare for me and I want to thank everyone who has reached out to me and shown nothing but love. Today I have officially been cleared and I am excited to tear up the field for my brothers and my gopher fans. Gods always got me. Let’s get this work!
One-year suspension upheld after being downgraded from expulsion
- Carlton Djam, redshirt junior RB
Expulsion upheld
- KiAnte Hardin, junior CB
If Djam or Hardin want to continue appeals, they’ll have to go through the federal court system. The university’s process is done. According to police reporting, Djam engaged in and filmed part of the incident and also identified Hardin as being involved.
Were recommended for expulsion and have all transferred to the same JUCO
- Ray Buford, redshirt sophomore DB
- Dior Johnson, redshirt sophomore DB
- Tamarion Johnson, redshirt freshman DE
The three underclassman defenders from Detroit signed with Arizona Western, a top JUCO program, the school has confirmed.
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