I would hope you wouldn't do the things Da Rick did. We hear that line "he's just a kid" all the time as justification for criminal behavior. His BS contributed to the decline of the program so I don't know why you want to defend him.
What a saga:
Rogers was one of two Tennessee players arrested and he was charged during an early morning bar brawl that left an off-duty police officer who tried to break up the fight knocked unconscious. Rogers was released from jail on a $1,000 bond.
He was alleged to have tossed a weight at a strength coach at the University of Tennessee.
It was said that he got into a verbal altercation with since-retired receivers coach Charlie Baggett during a UT loss to Kentucky in 2011.
Coach Dooley put Rogers on a two-week ban from offseason activities for conduct detrimental to the team (during spring of 2012).
On August 23, 2012, it was announced that Da'Rick Rogers had been suspended from the Tennessee Volunteers indefinitely for a violation of team rules, though no specific reason was publicly announced. Rogers subsequently admitted to failing three drug tests while at Tennessee.
The hell with guys that cause trouble for the program.