Three-time NCAA national football champion coach Urban Meyer of Ohio State already has been forced to take paid administrative leave due to reports he was aware of spousal abuse allegations against an assistant coach.

Now, the investigative team known for its political exposés, Project Veritas, has released a video compiling its undercover-video interviews with former athletes who played for Meyers at the University of Florida.

The former players accuse Meyer and his staff of systematic physical and mental abuse.

Among them are Xavier Nixon, who recalled an incident in which wide receiver Omarius Hines was severely injured during a weight training session Meyer oversaw called "The Valentine’s Day Massacre."

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"They had a guy's quads explode in the weight room on the leg press during what we call the Valentine’s Day Massacre," he said. "You basically do everything until failure and the lactic acid had built up in his legs so much that his quads literally exploded, they erupted, and he had to be taken out in an ambulance."

Project Veritas said it's the first video in an undercover series exposing issues in both the NCAA and NFL.

The four former Florida players were videoed in separate meetings throughout late 2017 and 2018 across the country.

They charge that Meyer blatantly disregarded players' health and well-being, describing a culture in which injured players were mocked and the severity of their injuries would be kept from them.

Nixon recalled teammate Gideon Ajagbe, a freshman for Meyer's 2010 Florida Gator team, contracted a severe infection in his shoulder that led to hospitalization.

Before he was hospitalized, Ajagbe was forced to practice and was purposefully subjected to ridicule from the team, said Nixon, who concluded his teammate "was literally dying."

Despite having "bacteria eating the muscle in his shoulders," Ajagbe was forced to carry "a 45-pound plate over his head ... he was crying."

Ajagbe confirmed to the Project Veritas undercover reporter "it was bad," saying the abuse made him suicidal.

"A lot of what played into my depression was they humiliated me. They thought I was trying to skip out on practice ... the word they used, imma be frank, they said I was a pu**y. They’re like man, you’re a pu**y, you’re soft, you’re this, you’re that. ... There was one day, my arm was literally dangling, like I couldn’t lift my shoulder. ... And they were like everybody run like Gideon. ... The whole team, like everyone was laughing at me."

Ajagbe said his parents "sent me out here and they put all their faith in this coaching staff to take care of me."

But Meyer, he said, engaged in psychologically abuse of his players.

"He's the kind of dude that would get all the information he needs to get on you and he would use it to manipulate you or he would use it against you," Ajagbe said.

"If [Meyer] know that you’re not really smart, he'll put you in front of the team and make you do trivia. And everyone would laugh at you."