A former Rutgers player who had been given another chance at wiping his record clean after a street brawl three years ago is now facing an attempted homicide charge after an alleged drunken assault on a woman in Nashville.
Nadir Barnwell, 22, allegedly grabbed a woman by the throat while on a city pedestrian bridge early Monday morning, shook her and dropped her on her head, fracturing the woman's skull, according to the arrest warrant from Nashville Metro Police.
Barnwell played cornerback for Rutgers under the Kyle Flood regime but transferred to Tennessee Tech last year after a highly publicized fight over a parking spot in New Brunswick in 2015, in which four other ex-Scarlet Knights were charged.