Gators’ WR transferred from OSU after racially charged incident with assistant, report says

Florida Gators wide receiver Trevon Grimes, a former Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas star, was involved in a racially charged incident while attending Ohio State with former Buckeyes assistant coach Zach Smith, and head coach Urban Meyer was aware of the altercation, according to a Watch Stadium report.

Watch Stadium’s Brett McMurphy first reported Smith’s alleged domestic violent past with estranged wife Courtney Smith that Meyer knew about prior to Smith’s dismissal from the program.

The latest allegations surrounding Smith involves Grimes through an interview McMurphy conducted with Grimes’ father, LeBron.

It led to Grimes’ transfer to UF.

“Trevon said, ‘I want to leave.’ He was very emotional. He said, ‘I can’t take it anymore. I just want to leave.’ Trevon went up to Ohio State in August [2017] and in two months after I sent him up there — it’s supposed to be the greatest moment of his life and I’m feeling it’s a blessing — I get a phone call from him crying, angry and confused,” LeBron Grimes told Watch Stadium. “His mom [Leah Grimes] was the first one to call me. That’s why I knew it was bad when his mother called me. Trevon said, ‘You have to get me out of this situation.’”

According to Watch Stadium, Ohio State officials and Smith denied the allegations of the incident taking place in September 2017.

Grimes’ father said his son was called “an [expletive],” according to Watch Stadium.

Neither Grimes nor his mother, Leah, commented on the alleged incident. LeBron Grimes told Watch Stadium that Meyer was aware of it, but covered it up.

Ohio State admitted an interaction occurred between Grimes and Smith, but denied a racist comment was used, according to Watch Stadium.

Send story tips to @Jason__Dill on Twitter.

This story was originally published November 13, 2018 at 11:41 AM.