One week after winning back the starting job, Ohio State quarterback J. T. Barrett, a redshirt sophomore and a team captain, was cited Saturday morning by the Columbus police on a charge of operating a vehicle under the influence, a misdemeanor. Barrett was suspended for one game by Coach Urban Meyer.
The incident, reported by the website Eleven Warriors, was confirmed in a statement Saturday morning by Ohio State’s athletics department.
Multiple news outlets have reported that Barrett, 20, was arrested at a checkpoint near campus, and that his blood-alcohol concentration registered slightly over Ohio’s limit of 0.