“I really, truly love football,” Oakman was quoted as saying after leaving Penn State. “I can say I found my niche and this is what I was born to do. This is me, football is me. I can’t see myself doing anything else but playing football. I had it taken away from me, I want to show Penn State and coach (Bill) O’Brien that I messed up, but I’m back now.”

Oakman is the latest in a string of Baylor football players to be accused of sexual assault in recent years, including two other defensive ends who were convicted of raping women.

Tevin Elliott, a former Baylor defensive end from Mount Pleasant, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined $10,000 in 2014 after his conviction on two counts of sexually assaulting former Baylor student Jasmin Hernandez at a party at a Waco apartment complex in 2012.

Two other former Baylor students testified at Elliott’s trial that Elliott sexually assaulted them, and there was evidence that a fourth student reported he sexually assaulted her.