Ohio State Football: Allegations Made Against Gareon Conley
Trouble for an Ohio State player before the draft.
Ohio State corner Gareon Conley was projected to be a first round pick in this year’s NFL draft but that may not be the case anymore. He has been accused of raping a woman at a hotel in Cleveland on April 9 according to TMZ.com.
As reported in the article by TMZ, Conley and the woman met in a hotel elevator around 3 AM and he brought her back to his hotel room. I feel somewhat uncomfortable sharing the details of what the woman said transpired after that, but you can click on the link if you want to read about it.
Here are some of the other things that were reported by TMZ though:
"An officer tried to speak with the accuser at the hospital but she refused to do an interview. Instead, she told the cop she wanted to go home and “that her dignity was stripped from her in a matter of minutes.” She refused to speak to cops after that.As for Conley, two of his friends who were in the hotel room were interviewed by police and told cops Conley never hooked up with the woman and that she was just mad that she got kicked out of the room.One of Conley’s friends said the two had been lying on the bed together “but nothing happened.”Conley was not in the room when police arrived and his friends said they did not know where he went.Conley’s attorney spoke with Cleveland19 and denied the allegations calling the accusations “ludicrous and ridiculous.”Cops are investigating but so far no arrests have been made and no charges have been filed."
Hopefully no crime was committed that night because that would be a terrible thing for any woman to have happen to them. But even if charges are never filed against Conley, it will affect him anyway.
His draft stock was continuing to rise following the NFL Combine and Conley was projected by many to me a mid first round pick. Maybe not anymore.
NFL general managers treasure their first round picks, and anything that makes them nervous about a player can make them move on to another one. A young man who has put himself into a tenuous situation in the middle of the night when he is coming up to the most important day of his football career will make a GM pause.
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NFL teams often have to deal with their stars getting in trouble after midnight at a hotel or a club. They may not want to take a chance on a guy who has already had an issue with that before he has even signed his first NFL contract.