UNC quarterback charged with rape and more

Charlotte 49ers quarterback Kevin Olsen, brother of Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen, was arrested on rape charges Sunday afternoon in Charlotte.
Olsen was charged with felony second-degree forcible rape, cyberstalking, assault on a female and second-degree forced sex.
Charlotte football coach Brad Lambert said Sunday night he was aware of the arrest and that Olsen, a junior, had been suspended from the team.
A statement released by UNC Charlotte said that the allegations against Olsen "appear to involve sexual assault within an existing relationship."
UNC Charlotte said it had been in communication with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police following the arrest Sunday afternoon. Allegations in the case stemmed from an incident that occurred off campus, the university said, but provided no details.
"This incident occurred a week after a separate, unrelated case of alleged on-campus sexual assault involving acquaintances," the university said. "Olsen has been suspended from Charlotte athletics, and the University is reviewing the case consistent with its disciplinary procedures."
Olsen, 22, 6-foot-3 and 215 pounds, was booked into the Charlotte Mecklenburg Jail about 4:45 p.m. Sunday.
Olsen's brother, speaking through others, said he had nothing to say.
"Greg has no comment, and asks that people respect his privacy," said Steven Drummond, director of communications for Carolina Panthers.
Olsen started for the 49ers at quarterback in September 2016 in a game against Louisville, hoping to resurrect a career that has been marred with off-field problems and disappointment. However, the 49ers turned the starting job over to Hasaan Klugh on Oct. 9.
A four-star rated quarterback coming out of high school four years ago, Olsen essentially made a mess of his first two stops in college, with an accumulation of reported legal entanglements forcing him out of Miami and, less than a year later, broken team rules ending a brief stay at Towson.
But after a redemptive season at a junior college in California, Olsen landed with the 49ers, hoping to finish his final two years of eligibility.
His parents moved from New Jersey to Cornelius four years ago and his two older brothers — one of them Greg Olsen — also live in Charlotte.
Like his older brothers, Kevin Olsen played for his father and coach Chris Olsen Sr. at Wayne Hills (N.J.) High. Kevin was far younger than Greg (by 10 years) and Chris Jr. (12). Kevin was a water boy and ball boy at Wayne Hills games, all the while watching his dad coach and his big brothers play.
Although Greg ended up at Miami and Chris Jr. at Virginia (both transferring after initially going to Notre Dame), Kevin would eventually be a more highly touted high school player. Despite missing several games with a broken foot during his senior season, Olsen threw for more than 3,400 yards in his career at Wayne Hills.
He would choose to play college ball at Miami over other schools such as Florida State, Arkansas, Michigan, Stanford and South Carolina.
Olsen redshirted at Miami in 2013, and appeared to have won the Hurricanes' starting job for the following season. But he left school in September 2014 after reportedly being suspended multiple times for breaking team rules and failing a drug test. His final transgression at Miami, where he would never play a down, was being charged with DUI and possession of a fake or stolen identification.
Olsen then transferred to the Football Championship Subdivision's Towson, but was thrown off the team in March 2015 for violating team rules, according to the Baltimore Sun. He still hadn't taken a snap in a college football game.
"People are going to say stuff," Olsen said in an August 2016 interview with the Observer. "It's never as good or as bad as what you hear. I won't dwell on the past. People who dwell on things never emerge from that low state. It's got to stop. It's been two years ago now.
"I guess you could say I regret it, probably more for putting my family, friends and coaching staff through it more than anything else. My biggest regret is what I put the people who care about me through over the last two years."
Olsen surfaced last season at Riverside (Calif.) City College.
"I tell all the kids that have made a mistake somewhere else that you have a clean slate here," Tigers coach Tom Craft told the Riverside Press-Enterprise after Olsen arrived. "You can change the way people think. ... You can re-establish your reputation as a person and a player."
Olsen made the most of the faith Craft showed him, throwing for 1,080 yards and 13 touchdowns and completing 56.3 percent of his passes in nine games, sharing time at the position.
Olsen played well enough that he attracted attention from programs such as San Jose State, Eastern Illinois and Colorado State.
In winning Charlotte's quarterback job, Olsen beat out four other quarterbacks, including three — seniors Matt Johnson and Lee McNeill and junior Brooks Barden — who shared the position in 2015.