Report: Exonerated Banks will get a second look with Seahawks
Running back Brian Banks, who had an audition with the Seattle Seahawks Thursday two weeks after he was exonerated from charges of rape and kidnapping, has been invited back for a second look, the Seattle Times reported.
Seattle coach Pete Carroll had offered Banks a scholarship to USC almost 10 years ago, before he served a six-year jail sentence after pleading no contest to the rape charge. He was exonerated last month when the accuser admitted the allegation was fabricated.
So Carroll offered him a chance to try out for the Seahawks.
Banks ran the 40-yard dash, but didn't know the time the team logged. Banks told the Seattle Times he has been running in the mid 4.6s, low 4.7s in training for this.
Carroll saw enough that he knew he wanted to see more. Banks has been invited to the team's three-day minicamp, which begins Tuesday. Banks has been offered tryouts with at least five other teams.
"Regardless of how it turns out, it's the fact that he's made it to this point and he's going to get this opportunity, I hope it helps other people," Carroll told the Times. "That's an emotional exchange, it's worth passing along."
