Texas A&M redshirt freshman offensive lineman TJ Shanahan has been suspended after he was arrested Saturday night on two misdemeanor charges, A&M head coach Mike Elko said Monday.
Shanahan, 20, was booked on two charges – failure to identify and a minor in possession of alcohol – which are both misdemeanors, according to Brazos County jail records. Shanahan was released on Sunday after he posted bail of $2,300.
“We handled that internally,” Elko said at his weekly press conference. “He was suspended immediately, and now it’s under internal review and we’ll kind of go from there.”
Texas A&M offensive lineman TJ Shanahan (67) prepares to snap the ball against McNeese State at Kyle Field on Saturday.
College Station police said at around 10:45 p.m., Saturday, an officer at a Northgate area parking lot noticed Shanahan had two open containers of alcohol inside his car, which is against city ordinance. The …