June 25, 2026

Former Ohio State football player Bri’onte Dunn testifies in rape trial

A former Ohio State University football player accused of rape testified on Thursday that he routinely had casual sex with a woman he met on a dating app who made the accusations. He said the acts were always consensual. “I don’t know if she’s that mad that I didn’t give her what she wanted,” said Bri’onte Dunn, 25, who faces two counts of rape stemming from a Aug. 20, 2017 incident involving the woman. Dunn, who played for the Buckeyes from 2012 to 2015 as a backup running back before he was dismissed from the team after violating team rules, said the woman drank a lot and wanted to be married to a football player. She told him she wanted to have his baby, he told the court. “I kind of told her I didn’t like that. I told her I didn’t think it was going to work,” Dunn said.…

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