text: PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers has dismissed five players from its football team following their arrests earlier this week. 
   
   Coach Kyle Flood announced the dismissals about 10 minutes before the Scarlet Knights' season opener against Norfolk State. 
   
   Kicked off the team were defensive backs Nadir Barnwell, Dre Boggs, Ruhann Peele, Delon Stephenson and fullback Razohnn Gross. Barnwell, Boggs and Stephenson were slated to be starters. 
   
   Barnwell also is at the center of an investigation into whether Flood broke school and NCAA rules by contacting a teacher about a grade he received. 
   
   On Thursday, the Middlesex County prosecutor's office announced Barnwell, Peele, Gross and Stephenson were charged with aggravated assault, riot and conspiracy to commit a riot for a fight in April that left a man with a broken jaw. 
   
   The county prosecutor's office also said Boggs was charged in two home-invasion robberies in April and May. 
   
   Shortly after the announcement of the arrests on Thursday, athletic director Julie Hermann announced the players were suspended. ||||| NEW BRUNSWICK — The alleged April 25 assault that left one Rutgers University student with a broken jaw and prompted charges against six former and current Rutgers football players earlier this week was captured on video, NJ Advance Media has learned. 
   
   According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, investigators with the New Brunswick Police Department were recently provided information as to the existence of video footage of the alleged attack. The source's details were confirmed by a second person with knowledge of the events. 
   
   Investigators arrived at the Hale Center Football Training Facility on Aug. 28 where, according to the source, they confiscated cellular phones from an unknown number of team members. According to the source, investigators obtained a court-approved order to seize the phones prior to arriving at the facility. None of the players was questioned at the time, the sources said. 
   
   An unknown number of coaches was present at the Hale Center as the phones were being confiscated, one of the sources said. It was not clear if head football coach Kyle Flood was among them, the sources added. 
   
   A spokesman for Rutgers athletics director Julie Hermann said the investigation is part of an ongoing legal matter and the university would have no comment for this story. 
   
   Citing the ongoing police investigation into the assaults, a university spokeswoman on Saturday declined to comment on whether Rutgers officials were made aware of the phone seizures. 
   
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   Reached Friday, a spokesman for the Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey declined to comment on the police investigation into the assault. 
   
   Earlier this week, Carey's office announced charges against four then current players — cornerback Ruhann Peele, fullback Razohnn Gross, cornerback Nadir Barnwell and defensive back Delon Stephenson — in connection to the alleged attack. 
   
   Three of the players were team starters prior to the filing of charges. Peele, Gross, Barnwell, Stephenson and cornerback Dre Boggs were all dismissed from the football program Saturday. 
   
   Authorities allege that former players Tejay Johnson and Daryl Stephenson also participated in the assault. 
   
   All now face a range of charges stemming from the attack, including aggravated assault, riot, and conspiracy to commit a riot. 
   
   Authorities allege that the players surrounded a group of at least four other individuals and assaulted them during the "unprovoked" street attack one day after the team concluded spring camp with the Scarlet-White scrimmage. In the aftermath, a 19-year-old male student was left with a broken jaw, authorities said. 
   
   The revelation of the video's existence is just the latest wrinkle in a scandal that rocked the Rutgers University football program earlier this week. 
   
   Authorities announced an investigation that led to a total of 10 suspects, 7 of whom were students, being charged in a variety of crimes related to the assault, home-invasion robberies, including one at gunpoint and an attempted robbery at a Livingston College dorm. 
   
   A phone call to Nadir Barnwell, the player at the center of the university's investigation into Flood for a possible compliance violation, was unsuccessful. 
   
   Reached by phone, Harvey Barnwell, the father of Nadir Barnwell, said, "Not now, sir, not now,'' and hung up. 
   
   Rutgers officials placed the seven students, including the five football players, on interim suspension from the university on Friday. 
   
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   A timeline of events: ||||| The Rutgers Scarlet Knights helmet (Photo: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports, USA TODAY Sports) 
   
   PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers has dismissed the five football players who were suspended earlier this week following their arrests. One was charged in two home invasions and four others were charged with assaulting a group of people in New Brunswick in April. 
   
   All five— Nadir Barnwell, Dre Boggs, Razohnn Gross, Ruhann Peele and Delon Stephenson — are no longer part of the football program, the school announced just before kickoff against Norfolk State on Saturday. 
   
   The dismissals cap a turbulent preseason for the Scarlet Knights and coach Kyle Flood, who was also previously involved in an academic impropriety investigation involving Barnwell. 
   
   On Thursday, prosecutors said Peele, Barnwell, Gross and Stephenson were charged with aggravated assault, riot and conspiracy to commit a riot for a fight that left a man with a broken jaw. They said Boggs was charged in two home-invasion robberies in April and May. 
   
   The dismissals will leave Rutgers' secondary very thin, as three of the five were defensive backs expected to be key contributors this season. 
   
   Contributing: Associated Press
target: – Coach Kyle Flood kicked five players—three of them projected starters—off the Rutgers University football team minutes before its season opener today, the AP reports. This week, players Nadir Barnwell, Razohnn Gross, Ruhann Peele, and Delon Stephenson were charged with assault stemming from a fight in April that left a 19-year-old student with a broken jaw, according to NJ.com. The fifth player, Dre Boggs, was charged with home-invasion robbery in connection with two incidents in April and May, reports USA Today. All five players were suspended by Rutgers following their arrests earlier this week. Police say Barnwell, Gross, Peele, and Stephenson—along with two former Rutgers players and a number of others—surrounded a group of four people and attacked them without provocation following a scrimmage in April, reports NJ.com. According to the site, police recently learned that fight was caught on video and seized cellphones belonging to a number of Rutgers players late last month.