Former TCU safety Jacob Fields is now facing a charge of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury after a locker room altercation that got him kicked off the team earlier this month, according to Tarrant County Jail logs released Sunday.
Fields was booked into the Tarrant County Jail on Sunday, and no bond amount has been set. On3.com first reported the development.
The incident dates back to Aug. 13, when Fields was accused of striking wide receiver Dozie Ezukanma in the locker room. TCU reported the matter to campus police on Aug. 14, and a TCU athletics spokesperson confirmed Fields was dismissed from the team on Aug. 15.
Fields arrived at TCU as a senior transfer from Louisiana Tech and had been expected to play a major role on defense for the Horned Frogs.
Ezukanma, a junior from Keller Timber Creek, did not play in Saturday’s season-opening 15-10 loss to North Carolina in Dublin. In a now-deleted Instagram video, he said Fields hit him from behind in the locker room.
“How you gon’ sucker punch me, bro. That’s your teammate,” Ezukanma said.
TCU coach Sonny Dykes first spoke publicly about the situation at a press conference Thursday before the North Carolina game, calling it something that stood apart from the norm inside the program.
“It was something that was certainly out of character for the team and the young man that was involved,” Dykes said. “Look, you got 110 football players.
I mean, things happen sometimes. You’ve got to find ways to move through them, and, man, these young kids are resilient.”
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