An attorney for suspended Tennessee cornerback Bryce Thompson noted in court Tuesday that a woman the player allegedly threatened during a confrontation last month never directly accused him of making any threats against her.

Thompson, dressed in a Tennessee orange and gray polo, made a brief appearance during an arraignment on a misdemeanor charge of domestic assault before Knox County General Sessions Judge Patricia Hall Long.

Long set a preliminary hearing in the case for Sept. 23.

Several witnesses told University of Tennessee police they overheard Thompson make several threats while arguing with the woman Aug. 24.

On Tuesday, Thompson’s attorney, John Valliant, noted that the woman’s statement to police does not corroborate those of the witnesses.

“This is an unusual case, in terms of the circumstances involved,” Long said.

Thompson, 19, has remained on indefinite suspension from the team after his arrest at Stokely Hall on the University of Tennessee-Knoxville campus.

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Witnesses told campus police Thompson threatened to “slap the (expletive) out of” the woman during an argument between the two, according to an arrest warrant. Witnesses also said he threatened to “shoot up the school.”

The woman, who said she had been dating Thompson for about four years, told police he “has a bad temper and has punched walls during past arguments.”

She also stated “she could not remember the entirety of what had occurred between the two as it was a stressful, volatile situation,” the warrant reads. “She stated the argument began in his dorm room before moving to the stairwell and continuing for another 10-20 minutes.”

Thompson was jailed overnight and released after posting $3,000 bond.

Thompson admitted to arguing with the woman, but denied having any physical contact with her or making any threats, according to the warrant. He also admitted to damaging a gate at the residence hall, police said.

A different woman who had a relationship with Thompson filed for a restraining order against him in January 2018 in Richland County, South Carolina, according to court records. The two agreed to a one-year mutual restraining order in April 2018.

In the initial restraining order filing, the woman wrote that Thompson told her in a text that if she dated another man, he “would kill both me and that other guy.” She wrote that she believed Thompson’s threat because “he has a history of violence against me and others. He has physically slapped me, choked me and thrown me around. I fear for my safety, and am constantly looking over my shoulder.”

The Knoxville News Sentinel is not identifying the woman because she wrote in the restraining order filing she is a victim of relationship violence.