Iowa State defensive tackle Kamilo Tongamoa suspended for season opener

Tommy Birch | The Des Moines Register

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Iowa State defensive tackle Kamilo Tongamoa was removed from the team’s depth chart and has been suspended for the team’s season-opener on Saturday.

Iowa State athletics spokesman Mike Green told the Register on Monday that Tongamoa’s one-game suspension against South Dakota State stems from an off-season arrest. Tongamoa was arrested in January for OWI-first offense, striking an unattended vehicle, failure to have a valid license and not having insurance.

PREVIOUSLY: Tongamoa confident heading into 2018

The 6-foot-5, 309-pound redshirt senior had been listed on the pre-fall camp depth chart in a battle with Angel Dominguez for the backup defensive tackle job. Tongamoa wasn’t listed on the two-deep for Saturday’s game.

There had been high expectations for Tongamoa, a former junior college star who was ranked a four-star recruit by Scout and listed as the fourth-best junior college defensive tackle by 247Sports. But Tongamoa has struggled to live up to the high expectations so far. He got to campus shortly before Iowa State’s season-opener in 2017 and went on to play in just four games and record one tackle.