Oregon has indefinitely suspended Darren Carrington after the wide receivers was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of intoxicants, The Oregonian reported on Saturday.
Officers apprehended Carrington at 3:15 on Saturday morning after he collided with a drive-through at a Eugene McDonalds, according to an EPD spokesperson. He was booked at 5:28 a.m. and bonded out just over one hour later.
Head coach Willie Taggart has suspended Carrington “from all football team activities after his arrest last night by the Eugene Police Department on a charge of Driving Under the Influence. We are continuing to gather the facts in this matter,” a UO spokesperson told the paper.
While Carrington’s arrest is his first disciplinary issue since Taggart’s January hiring, it does make one wonder what exactly he’d have to do to get kicked off the Ducks’ roster. Carrington was ineligible for Oregon’s College Football Playoff Championship loss to Ohio State -- a game the Ducks lost in large part due to a plethora of dropped passes -- was cited for open container in October 2015 and was accused of breaking a man’s arm in a Halloween incident last year.
Carrington posted this message on his Instagram account Saturday morning.
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Carrington, a rising senior, was Oregon’s leading receiver last season, nabbing 43 receptions for 606 yards and five touchdowns. He posted 609 yards and six touchdowns as a sophomore in 2015, leading the Ducks in yards per game, yards per reception and touchdowns per game. He was Oregon’s second-leading receiver in the Ducks’ Pac-12 championship season of 2014, collecting 37 balls for a career-high 704 yards and four scores.