TCU tight end Cole Novak couldn’t play football last season.
Novak broke his jaw in two places and required emergency surgery after being punched outside of an Austin bar last summer. But the man who punched him, 25-year-old Humberto “Beto” Barrera, was found not guilty of aggravated assault by a Travis County jury on Wednesday, as reported by the Austin American-Statesman.
The verdict is not sitting well with Novak’s family.
“We’re very disappointed and just absolutely blown away by the jury’s verdict,” said his father Jeff Novak, a former NFL player with the Jacksonville Jaguars and member of Texas State’s athletic hall of honor.