Former NFL Player Kellen Winslow Jr.

Former NFL Player Kellen Winslow Jr. Has Been Arrested on Rape Charges

(ENCINITAS, Calif.) — Former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. has been captured on charges of assault and other sex violations on the day he was to show up in court on an irrelevant robbery allegation.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports sheriff's representatives captured Winslow on Thursday at his home in the San Diego suburb of Encinitas.

The 34-year-old Winslow was accused of two tallies of assault, two checks of seizing with expectation to confer assault and single tallies of coercive homosexuality, oral sexual intercourse and profane presentation. He's free subsequent to posting $50,000 safeguard.

Safeguard lawyer Brian Watkins declined to remark to the Union-Tribune.

Winslow was expected to show up in court Thursday in the wake of being accused of robbery following an episode a month ago at a manufactured house stop. He presently faces arraignment Friday.

The child of Hall of Fame tight end Kellen Winslow, the more youthful Winslow burned through 10 seasons in the NFL from 2004-13 with Cleveland, Tampa Bay, New England and the New York Jets. The previous University of Miami star had 469 gets for 5,236 yards and 25 touchdowns in 105 amusements.

When NFL's most generously compensated tight end, he was suspended in 2013 with the Jets for disregarding the association's execution upgrading drug arrangement. In November 2013, he was captured after a lady told police she saw him stroking off in a stopped auto outside of a New Jersey retail establishment. Winslow was captured for ownership of manufactured weed, and the charge was dropped after he finished court-requested terms.

Drafted No. 6 in general by Cleveland, he broke his correct leg in his new kid on the block season, at that point managed genuine right knee damage in a cruiser mischance that offseason.