A former TCU football player was arrested and charged with assault after a locker room fight that led to his dismissal from the team. Jacob Fields, a safety who transferred to the school in the offseason, has been charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, according to police records obtained by the Daily Mail.Fields has been accused of striking wide receiver Dozie Ezukanma in a locker room fight on August 13. Days later, Fields would be dismissed from the team for a violation of team rules.Fields turned himself in to Tarrant County, Texas police on Sunday morning, per court records. Bond has not been set at the time of publishing.Ezukanma wasn’t revealed as the victim until days later when the player posted about it to his Instagram account, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The paper’s reporting of the incident had unintended consequences as TCU’s athletic department revoked the credentials of the beat reporter covering the Horned Frogs. Former TCU football player Jacob Fields has turned himself into police after being charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury stemming from a locker room fight Fields (8) transferred to the school this offseason from Louisiana Tech, but was kicked off the team two days after the fight for ‘violating team rules’. The exact infraction was revealed later.On Wednesday, the paper announced the school ‘rescinded the Star-Telegram’s credentials to cover Horned Frogs athletics’ over the coverage of the incident by TCU beat writer Steven Johnson.’In a phone conversation Sunday, a TCU athletics spokesman said the Star-Telegram’s credentials were being pulled because the coverage resulted in threats to the victim,’ the paper’s sports editor, Jim Barnes, wrote in an article. Barnes added that the paper did not identify the athlete and that Ezukanma ‘identified himself in a now-deleted Instagram video.’In a statement to the paper, TCU athletic director Mike Buddie said: ‘Our primary focus is the health and wellbeing of our student athlete. Unfortunately, an unnamed source without first-hand knowledge of the incident provided inaccurate information cited in initial reporting by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which we strongly disputed.’He added: ‘The inclusion of the misinformation advanced a narrative that endangered a student-athlete and resulted in threats to him and his family. These actions led to the decision to withhold the media credential until additional conversation can be held between athletics and the sports reporting team. We remain dedicated to restoring our student to health as well as focusing on the game that’s ahead.’Barnes added that officials have not ‘defined what criteria would need to be met to restore the credentials.’ Fans and journalists were outraged by the move from TCU, with social media lashing back at the team: Genuinely what the f*** did TCU think would be the response to this,’ wondered one fan on X. ‘They should have an empty press box,’ said NFL beat writer Scott Salomon. A fellow NFL writer, Charean Williams, posted, ‘Boycott covering anything about TCU. Anything.’ Just before the season began, TCU revoked the credentials of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for its reporting on the incident which it said ‘endangered’ the victim in the fight and his family The paper’s TCU reporter, Steven Johnson, was preparing to travel to the team’s first game of the season in Ireland when the news of the credential revocation brokeThe Athletic’s media reporter Andrew Marchand tweeted: ‘This seems embarrassing by TCU.’The presidents of both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Football Writers Association of America released statements condemning the move.Posting to X, Johnson said that he was boarding his flight to the Emerald Isle before adding: ‘I just want to say I appreciate all the support and those reaching out. It means a lot. As for the situation, I don’t have much to say aside from I look forward to continue covering TCU and believe the Frogs have a chance to be pretty good this year.’TCU played the opening game of the college football season against North Carolina in Ireland. The Horned Frogs fell to the Tar Heels 15-10.