Ex-Bills punter Matt Araiza not present during alleged rape, prosecutors say: report

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Former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza was not present for the alleged gang rape he was accused of participating in with two of his football teammates that occurred at a party near San Diego State’s campus in October 2021, prosecutors have reportedly found. 

Araiza had made the Bills’ 53-man roster as the team’s punter after winning the training camp battle last August. But all of that changed when the rookie, nicknamed the "Punt God" for his skills in that area of football, was named in a civil lawsuit that provided very graphic details of a gang rape of an intoxicated 17-year-old girl.

The lawsuit stated that Araiza had thrown the girl on a bed "face first" and she went in and out of consciousness while having unsolicited sex. The lawsuit added that it lasted an hour and a half, and she left the room bloodied and crying.

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Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza walks on the sideline during the first half of a preseason NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts in Orchard Park, N.Y., on Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus, File)

Following a 124-day investigation, prosecutors came out on Dec. 7, 2022, and said they wouldn’t press charges.

Yahoo Sports broke down what police and prosecutors found in a "200-plus page transcript of a 100-minute meeting" where a deputy district attorney explained why they found no evidence to press charges against Araiza or anyone else accused in the civil lawsuit to the girl and her attorneys.

The biggest piece of evidence that showed that Araiza allegedly wasn’t involved was that he "left" the house where the party was being thrown around 12:30