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Projected top five NFL draft pick Jalen Carter of the national champion Georgia football team may have been racing the speeding car in which Georgia player Devin Willock and recruiting staffer Chandler LeCroy crashed and died on Jan. 15 in Athens.

Carter will be arrested for reckless driving and racing, the Athens-Clarke County police said Wednesday. Both charges are misdemeanors.

A junior defensive tackle from Apopka, Florida, Carter was scheduled to speak at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on Wednesday. But he nor his party have been seen there, according to NFL Network. He is projected to be the first defensive tackle taken in the draft.

Carter at first told Athens Police that he was not near the accident when it happened. But he later told police he was traveling next to the vehicle with Willock and LeCroy that was traveling at 83 mph in a 40 mph zone, according to documents received recently by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Initial reports on the accident that injured two others on Barnett Shoals Road at 2:45 a.m. on Jan. 15 did not mention Carter, 21.

“Police had reason to suspect almost from the moment of the crash that other cars had been at the scene, and they soon learned at least two of those were driven by Georgia football players,” the AJC story says. “Seeking evidence of possible racing, officers have obtained surveillance video from city-owned cameras along the route the players took out of downtown Athens. They also obtained football from at least one business owner.”

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Georgia had celebrated its second consecutive national championship on the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 14, in downtown Athens and at Samford Stadium on campus.