Manhattan ? A former Kansas State football player was charged Monday with raping a woman in the dorm where he lives.

Aaron Darks, 19, was being held on $25,000 bond after appearing in court Monday afternoon. The alleged rape happened early Friday morning. Darks was arrested Saturday after turning himself in to university police.

Kansas State said Darks, a red-shirt freshman linebacker from Lufkin, Texas, had been cut from the team before the start of spring practice for violating team rules. Earlier this year, Darks submitted a request for withdrawal from all of his classes at the university, officials said.

Before he came to Kansas State, Darks was considered the 28th-best inside linebacker in the country out of high school.