{"id":57552,"date":"2022-08-27T00:08:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T00:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/buffalo-bills-punter-matt-araiza-sits-out-preseason-finals-in-wake-of-gang-rape-argument\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T00:08:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T00:08:57","slug":"buffalo-bills-punter-matt-araiza-sits-out-preseason-finals-in-wake-of-gang-rape-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/buffalo-bills-punter-matt-araiza-sits-out-preseason-finals-in-wake-of-gang-rape-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza sits out preseason finals in wake of gang rape argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2022-08-26T21:38:00Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">5:38 PM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Alaina Getzenberg<span>ESPN <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Buffalo Bills rookie punter Matt Araiza, who was accused in a lawsuit Thursday of gang raping a 17-year-old girl when he was at San Diego State last year, did not dress for Friday night&#8217;s preseason game against the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Araiza was not seen on the sideline to start the game, although he did travel with the team to Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Araiza is the only punter on the team&#8217;s roster after the Bills named him the starter with the release of punter Matt Haack on Monday.  Backup quarterback Matt Barkley filled in as the Bills&#8217; punter during Friday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0825\/r1053035_683x683_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The lawsuits filed in San Diego County Superior Court and obtained by ESPN, accuses Araiza and two of his former San Diego State teammates of rape, gender violence and false imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the argument, Araiza, who was 21 at the time, had sex with the then-high school senior, who was under the age of consent in California, outside at an off-campus party held at his residence in the early hours of Oct.  17, 2021. The suit states that Araiza then brought her inside a room where at least three other men were located, including the two other men named in the suit, Zavier Leonard, a redshirt freshman with the Aztecs, and Nowlin Ewaliko, who was a freshman last season but is no longer on the listed roster.  According to the argument, she was repeatedly raped for about an hour and a half until the party was shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Araiza&#8217;s criminal attorney, Kerry Armstrong, told ESPN that Araiza did not tell the Bills about the until early June, when the Los Angeles Times reported that rape against five Aztecs football players had not been investigated by San Diego State.  The university said this was based on the San Diego Police Department&#8217;s request that the school not take any action in order to not interfere with a police investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills released a statement Thursday night stating that they &#8220;were recently made aware of a civil complaint involving Matt from October 2021. Due to the serious nature of the complaint, we conducted a thorough examination of this matter. As this is an ongoing civil case , we will have no other comment at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In April, Araiza was selected by the Bills in the sixth round of the 2022 NFL draft after playing three seasons at San Diego State.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL on Thursday said it was aware of the incident but declined to comment.  Because the alleged rape happened before Araiza was drafted, he would not be subject to the league&#8217;s personal conduct policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5:38 PM ET Alaina GetzenbergESPN Buffalo Bills rookie punter Matt Araiza, who was accused in a lawsuit Thursday of gang raping a 17-year-old girl when he was at San Diego State last year, did not dress for Friday night&#8217;s preseason game against the Carolina Panthers. Araiza was not seen on the sideline to start the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/buffalo-bills-punter-matt-araiza-sits-out-preseason-finals-in-wake-of-gang-rape-argument\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza sits out preseason finals in wake of gang rape argument<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[4965,21209,46,423],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58478,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/buffalo-bills-release-punter-matt-araiza-in-wake-of-gang-rape-argument-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":57552,"position":0},"title":"Buffalo Bills release punter Matt Araiza in wake of gang-rape argument","date":"August 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"8:03 PM ETAlaina GetzenbergESPN ORCHARD PARK, NY - 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