Super Bowl Champs Sign Punter Who Was Blacklisted Over False Rape Allegation

Matt Araiza, the former Buffalo Bills punter who the team cut after a woman accused him of rape in 2022, is signing with the Kansas City Chiefs, his agents reported on Twitter.

The Bills cut Araiza in 2022 after an unnamed woman filed a lawsuit alleging he and two of his college teammates gang raped her at San Diego State University in 2021.

In December 2022 prosecutors elected not to charge Araiza criminally. In a 200-page transcript obtained by Yahoo Sports, San Diego’s Deputy District Attorney Trisha Amador concluded Araiza couldn’t have participated in the alleged rape because “He wasn’t even at the party anymore.”