(Content warning: This story contains representations of alleged sexual behavior inappropriate.)
Baltimore Ravens Released in quinture Kicker All-Pro Justin Tucker May 6 In the midst of the allegations of 16 women that he embarked on sexual misconduct during massage therapy sessions.
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On Wednesday, head coach John Harbaugh tackled the decision for the first time while speaking with the media.
As with the official declaration of the team, Harbaugh refused to directly deal with the allegations. He described the process as “complex” and “complicated” and finally described Tucker’s release of “football decision”.
“It was a complex decision -making process,” said Harbaugh to journalists. … “You are probably talking about the best botter in the story of the game. As we said, it’s multilayer, it’s complicated.
“In the end, everything comes back to what you need to do to prepare for your team to play the first game. I think that if you get back and take a look at all the problems and all the ramifications, you can understand that we have to prepare our football team. And we must have a ready -to -leave kicker.
“This is the movement that we decided to take. In this sense, it is a football decision.”
Tucker is accused of having made a sexual fault on separate occasions between 2012-16 in eight different spas in the Baltimore region. Allegations Publicly surfing in January in A Baltimore banner report.
Of the banner, in the declaration of subsequent allegations:
“Their allegations are largely similar to those of women who manifested themselves earlier, in particular that it had an erection for most of the massage, intentionally and repeated its genitals and brushed some of the thighs of therapists with its fingers. One of the seven new women said that it had left what seemed to be ejaculated on the massage table after its session.”
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Tucker does not face criminal charges and denied allegations.
“I maintain that I did not act inappropriately at any time before, during or after a professional body processing session,” Tucker wrote in a statement on allegations.
Tucker is considered one of the greatest boots in football history and had been with the Ravens for his entire career of 12 seasons after connecting 90.9% of his goal attempts as a recruit during the Baltimore race at the Super Bowl championship in 2012. Before allegations, he was a well -responded member of the Baltimore community.
Tucker also comes from the worst season of his career during which he connected to a career 73.3% of his attempts at the field, well below his career success rate of 89.1%. When the Ravens released it earlier in May, the director general Eric Decosta described the call as a “football decision”.
“Sometimes football decisions are incredibly difficult, and that is one of these cases,” said Decosta, according to a declaration from the Ravens. “Given our current list, we have made the decision difficult to release Justin Tucker.”
Nine days before freeing Tucker, the Ravens Kicker of the selected Arizona Tyler Loop in the sixth round of the NFL recovery. Since then, they have brought the Wyoming for the competition not drafted for the competition.
