Oregon wide receiver Evan Stewart was booked into Springfield Municipal Jail early Sunday morning on a DUII charge, according to a jail representative and a Springfield Police Department spokesperson who both confirmed the arrest to The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Court records show Stewart was cited at 5:34 a.m. Sunday. The formal filing of the DUII charge is still pending.
He was booked at about 7 a.m. and released to a third party roughly an hour later. Online records through the Victim Information System in Oregon confirm that Stewart had been booked and is no longer in custody.
“We are aware of the incident and are gathering information at this time,” a UO athletics spokesperson said in a written statement to The Oregonian/OregonLive on Monday.
Springfield police also said Sunday that online rumors tying Oregon football players to street racing were not true. According to police, several Ducks players were contacted early Sunday morning because they happened to be in the area of a separate pursuit. That pursuit led officers to an abandoned vehicle, but it was not connected to Stewart’s DUII arrest, and Springfield police are no longer pursuing that abandoned-vehicle case.
Stewart, a fifth-year wide receiver, did not play in Saturday’s 17-14 win over Nebraska at Autzen Stadium because of an undisclosed injury.
He transferred from Texas A&M to Oregon in 2024 and quickly became one of the Ducks’ top receivers. Stewart then missed the 2025 season after tearing his right patellar tendon in June. He returned this year and has 27 catches for 352 yards and four touchdowns in five games.
This is the second time in 2025 that someone in Oregon’s football program has faced DUII charges. Last April, running backs coach Ra’Shaad Samples, 31, was charged with DUII and reckless driving after police said he backed his Ford F-150 into a parked car near Willamette and West Broadway in Eugene.
Samples’ next court date is set for Oct. 27.
Oregon, now 4-2 overall and 2-1 in the Big Ten, visits Illinois on Saturday.
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