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Texas Christian University quarterback Trevone Boykin and wide receiver Preston Miller have been suspended for Saturday’s Alamo Bowl game against Oregon for a “violation of team rules,” TCU football coach Gary Patterson said Thursday. The suspensions follow Boykin’s arrest early Thursday on suspicion of assaulting a police officer in San Antonio, Texas. “We are disappointed in their actions and apologize to the TCU Horned Frogs Nation, Valero Alamo Bowl and city of San Antonio,” Patterson said.
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Texas Christian University’s star quarterback, Trevone Boykin, was arrested early Thursday and charged with assaulting a police officer, according to a Bexar County, Texas, court document.
An online search of a county magistrate website showed that Boykin, 22, was charged Thursday morning with assault of a public servant, a third-degree felony. Bond was listed as $5,000.
A person identified by several witnesses as TCU’s starting quarterback was fighting with employees inside Pat O’Brien’s bar in downtown San Antonio at about 2 a.m. (3 a.m. ET), according to a police report cited by Sgt. Romana Lopez, public information officer for the San Antonio Police Department.
He continued to be aggressive after moving outside to the sidewalk, Lopez said.
The person, who was with a group of people trying to get him back to his hotel, charged police officers that had arrived at the scene and “was swinging at” one officer, Lopez said.
Several officers took him to the ground, but he “would not comply with commands to stop resisting” until an officer warned him that he would use a Taser on him, according to Lopez.
Boykin’s status for Saturday’s Alamo Bowl in San Antonio — between 11th-ranked TCU and No. 15 Oregon — is unclear. TCU’s athletic department told CNN they are “gathering information” and will “evaluate additional details as they become available.”
In his four seasons with the Horned Frogs, Boykin has accounted for 110 touchdowns passing and rushing and more than 12,000 total yards, both of which are school records, according to the TCU