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Notre Dame had quite the incident hit national news lines yesterday, but today, the Big Ten suffered an arrest of its own. According to John Taylor of nbcsports.com, Iowa linebacker Nick Wilson is facing two charges after being arrested early this morning.
One of the charges against Wilson is operating a vehicle while intoxicated and the other is for driving with a suspended license. What led to the traffic stop is unknown according to Taylor and the school hasn’t made a public announcement regarding the charges.
This is Iowa LB Nick Wilson. Charged with an OWI, driving with suspended license this morning: pic.twitter.com/s47YZ3Li9o
— Marc Morehouse (@marcmorehouse) August 21, 2016
Here is the blotter. Wilson is a redshirt freshman from Granger. pic.twitter.com/RUnq8tXOFJ
— Marc Morehouse (@marcmorehouse) August 21, 2016
After recording just one tackle early last season, Wilson redshirted as a freshman in 2015. He was a three-star recruit out of the state of Iowa.
Kevin covers Big Ten football for Saturday Tradition.