Parker Kingston is no longer a student at Brigham Young University and has been kicked off the football team, a school spokesman said Friday.
BYU made the announcement about Kingston three days after the redshirt junior receiver was arrested on a felony rape charge and hours after he was released from Utah’s Hurricane Purgatory Correctional Institution on $10,000 bail.
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Additionally, the school said it was unaware of Kingston’s legal issues until Wednesday.
“The university administration and athletics administration, including BYU head coach Kalani Sitake, became aware of the investigation and charges after Kingston was arrested last Wednesday, February 11,” the statement read.
Kingston’s departure is a huge blow to the BYU football program, as the 21-year-old from Layton, who prepped at Roy High School before joining the team in 2022, led the Cougars with 67 catches for 928 yards and five touchdowns in 2025.
A first-degree felony rape charge was filed against Parker Trent Kingston on Tuesday following an investigation that began in February 2025, the Washington County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release Wednesday evening.
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A 20-year-old woman reported that Kingston sexually assaulted her on February 23, 2025, at her apartment in St. George. She reported the assault to police on Feb. 27 at St. George Regional Hospital, according to a probable cause statement released Thursday by a 5th District Court judge.
In the same probable cause statement, an officer said he interviewed Kingston and the then-BYU football player told him that “all sexual activity” that night was “consensual.”
During Kingston’s first court appearance Friday afternoon, Judge John Walton approved the terms and conditions agreed upon by Washington County Deputy Prosecutor Ryan J. Shoum and Kingston’s representative, Salt Lake City defense attorney Carla Tangaro.
Kingston was released on bail and ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor for at least the next 60 days, among other conditions of his release.