SEATTLE– A University of Washington football player was arrested and charged with raping two women in Seattle and court documents say he attended two College Football Playoff games for the school after at least one allegations have been brought to the attention of the university.
Seattle police officers arrested 18-year-old Tylin “Tybo” Rogers on Friday and booked him into King County Jail, KING-TV reported. He was charged Tuesday with second-degree rape and third-degree rape and his bond was set at $150,000 in each case, according to court documents.
It was not immediately known whether Rogers, of Bakersfield, California, had an attorney to comment on his behalf. Jail records show he was released on bail. Efforts by The Associated Press to contact him were not immediately successful.
Rogers has been suspended from all team activities until further notice, the University of Washington athletic department announced in a statement Tuesday. The university will continue to gather facts and cooperate with police as requested, the statement said.
A Seattle Central Community College student told police she was raped in the Capitol Hill neighborhood last year. According to court documents, Rogers and the 19-year-old woman met and began messaging each other after meeting on the dating app Tinder in August 2023. Rogers went to her apartment to hang out on Oct. 23 and assaulted her, the court heard. documents.
Authorities said in court documents that the woman reported the alleged rape to police on Oct. 28 and completed a sexual assault kit at Harborview Medical Center.
A 22-year-old University of Washington student reported she was raped in November 2023 in the University District, police said.
The woman met Rogers at a college Halloween party and then met him on Tinder, according to court documents. Police said the two planned to go out together a few weeks later and upon entering her apartment, Rogers immediately became violent and assaulted her. The woman told police that at one point Rogers “used one of his hands to strangle her.”
The second woman reported the alleged rape to the university on Nov. 28, police said. Rogers allegedly called her on that date to confront her about the allegations, police said in court documents.
He was also suspended from team activities around the end of November 2023, according to court documents. The freshman running back did not travel with the team for its win over the Oregon Ducks in the Pac-12 championship game on Dec. 1.
At the time, offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb said in a news conference that Rogers was “solving some things, some challenges that he had off the field,” according to court documents. Rogers returned to team practices in mid-December, documents show.
Multiple emails were also sent to the University of Washington athletic department confirming that Rogers should be removed from the team’s travel list for the Pac-12 championship game, but no documentation of the reasons for such No action was provided, according to the documents. He was, however, cleared to play in both of the Huskies’ College Football Playoff games a month later.
Rogers recorded five carries for 19 yards in the Huskies’ semifinal victory over the Texas Longhorns on January 1. The 18-year-old rushed for two yards in the national championship game against the Michigan Wolverines on January 8.
Washington was coached last season by Kalen DeBoer, who left the team after the national championship game to take the coaching job at Alabama. Jedd Fisch is now the head coach of Washington.
After Tuesday’s practice, Fisch told local media that nothing about Rogers’ suspension last year, or the reasons for it, had been brought to his attention.
“I wasn’t there for that,” Fisch said. “As soon as I became aware of the allegations, as soon as they were brought to our attention, he was suspended indefinitely. I have no comment on what happened in the past. It has nothing to do with me.”
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