Husky Running Back Tybo Rogers Accused of 2 Rapes

The sophomore has been suspended from the UW football team.

Tybo Rogers, a University of Washington running back, faces allegations of raping two women he met separately on an online dating service during last football season, according to charging documents filed on Tuesday by the county prosectors' office.

Rogers, 18, is a sophomore from Bakersfield, California, who was held out of Saturday's spring football practice and the school moved to suspend him indefinitely from the team prior to Tuesday's afternoon workout.

While Kalen DeBoer was the Husky coach when the sexual assaults allegedly took place, new football leader Jedd Fisch was met by a large media contingent following practice and left to answer for the grisly situation.

"From the very beginning, our message is you do the right thing, on and off the field," Fisch said. "That's never changed. There's zero tolerance for doing things off the field inappropriately."

The charging documents offer disturbing details of what the accusers said took place after Rogers met the two women last October. The alleged victims apparently didn't know each other. One was a Seattle Community College student, the other a UW student.

Rogers matched with the women on the dating app Tinder and stands accused of having sex with each of them without consent after being invited to their respective apartments. He later called one of them and complained after she had reported him to authorities, the documents show.

Rogers allegedly met the first woman through the social media service and was invited to her apartment to watch television. He attacked her after one of her roommates left for work and another slept, according to the charging documents.

He encountered the second woman briefly at a Halloween party in a Greek Row fraternity and then matched with her later on Tinder. Again, he was invited to the woman's apartment, where he forced himself on the victim, according to the documents.

Rogers was DeBoer's first committed recruit for the Class of 2023 and arrived at the UW full of great promise as a running back, possibly as someone with enough talent to be a pro football player someday. He had played his senior year at Bakersfield High School for coach Rashaan Shehee, who was a former Husky and NFL rusher himself.

He appeared in 12 UW games, more than any other freshman, yet he was continually in trouble. Last August, he was suspended by DeBoer for breaking team training rules during fall camp that weren't spelled out and was held out of the first two games of the season.

As the school became aware that Rogers was being investigated for the sexual assaults, the DeBoer coaching staff didn't take the running back to the Pac-12 championship game in Las Vegas. However, he was allowed to rejoin the team and play in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans and the College Football Playoff championship game in Houston.

Rogers took part in the Huskies' first two spring practices last Wednesday and Thursday before he was held out of Saturday's workout. His football career effectively could be over as he faces significant prison time if convicted.

Prosecutors asked that he be held on $300,000 bail for the alleged offenses. He faces charges of second-degree and third-degree rape.

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