Off the top of my head, the current punter for the KC Chiefs when he played at San Diego State.
Brian Banks is the most notorious case as he served 5 years in prison, the woman admitted on the record (when he was wearing a wire) she lied for money but yet she faced no repercussions.
Duke Lacrosse obviously, season was shut down and multiple players who weren't even at the scene of the alleged crime were charged with jail time hanging over their head.
Shawn Oakman got accused right before the NFL draft, he was a projected 1st rounder (in the very least, would have gotten drafted somewhere to get a 7 figure guaranteed payout) He went undrafted, trial took years to go to court, the evidence of his innocence was so overwhelming it took the jury 45 minutes basically to return a not guilty verdict. Despite him still training hard, his chances of ever making the NFL is gone forever.
There have been other high profile cases that never resulted in charges but damaged reputations: Patrick Kane, Derrick Rose and I'm missing a lot I'm sure but right now: Shannon Sharpe and Zion Williamson.
I say all that to say this, there are more unreported SAs than fake reports,
way more. I will never ever support something like "jail time" for fake reports unless it's for egregious level of lying and hard proof of it (like Brian Banks) Even cases like Shawn Oakman and Matt Araiza, I'll err on the side of caution for a he said, she said case that heavily favors the accused (Shawn Oakman) and bad testimony that borders on lying (Matt Araiza, who left the scene of the alleged SA before anything happened) The last thing we need is for victims to think there's any chance of them going to jail if they can't prove they got assaulted.
But on the flip side, innocent until proven guilty is how we operate in the courts in the US .... but not the court of public opinion and Carter will deal with that for the rest of his career at this point regardless of what happens.
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