Fairview High School quarterback Aidan Atkinson, a 2020 Northwestern commit, was arrested in Colorado and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault toward multiple juvenile girls on a party bus in September 2018. Atkinson was also a juvenile at the time.
Mitchell Byars of the Boulder Daily Camera reported Friday that Atkinson faces charges of sexual assault on a helpless victim, sexual assault overcoming will, sexual assault incapable of appraising conduct, attempted sexual assault and five charges of unlawful sexual contact.
"Northwestern is not permitted to comment on any prospective student-athlete until such time as they sign a National Letter of Intent," NU associate athletic director Pat Kennedy told Byars.