Ex-Bills punter Matt Araiza sending new piece of evidence to NFL teams in hope of return: report

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Ex-Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza is hoping that the audio recording of a Dec. 7 meeting with the woman accusing him and two of his former San Diego State football teammates of gang-rape and a San Diego County prosecutor will lead an NFL team to sign him once more. 

His accuser is hoping for the exact opposite, as she wants accountability for the actions she knows Araiza and his former teammates committed at a party on SDSU’s campus in October 2021. 

USA TODAY Sports spoke with both Araiza and the woman about the 101-minute audio recording of the prosecutor, Deputy Districty Attorney Trisha Amador, telling the woman and her attorney that no criminal charges would be filed against Araiza or his former teammates following their 124-day investigation that included four terabytes of data, more than 35 taped witness interviews, a physical exam of the woman and nine video clips of the woman’s sexual encounters that night. 

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Matt Araiza #PK01 of the San Diego State Aztecs speaks to reporters during the NFL Draft Combine at the Indiana Convention Center on March 5, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images)

"I don’t think it exonerates anybody," the woman said about the recording of her and Amador, via USA TODAY Sports

On the other side of the civil lawsuit that continues to go on, Araiza and his agent, Joe Linta, believe it is enough for NFL teams to consider his punting services again. The Bills, after selecting him in the sixth round of last year’s NFL Draft, released him before the season began. He had won the punting job during the preseason. 

Linta has sent the