SAN DIEGO (AP) Former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza is being dropped from a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleged she was raped by San Diego State University football players in 2021.The woman agreed Tuesday to dismi s Araiza from the lawsuit she filed last year, while Araiza agreed to dismi s his defamation countersuit against her, his attorneys said in a statement.He'll be removed from the suit in the next week, won't pay any money to the woman and reserves the right to sue her attorney for harm caused, the statement said, terming the agreement Matt Carpenter Jersey bittersweet.Matt has been forced to defend himself for the last sixteen months against false accusations and a campaign to ruin his career in the NFL. He will never get this time in his life back, attorneys Dick Semerdjian and Kristen Bush said.ADVERTISEMENT Thankfully, there was extensive evidence that was key to securing Matts voluntary dismi sal from this lawsuit, the statement added. Matt was and has always been innocent. The case is over, and Matt has prevailed. Araiza said Wednesday that the ordeal has changed me a lot and that he wants another shot at the NFL.My name, my reputation this will be tied to me forever, that wont go away, he said at a news conference. It was tough to watch the pain that it caused Andrew Miller Jersey my family, because I have been proven innocent but they for sure had absolutely nothing to do with this.Araiza said he continues to work out.When I was cut, I was an NFL starter, had just beat out an NFL veteran. I was on a four-year contract and that wont be handed back to me. No one in the NFL is going to go, Heres the job that you once had, so working to regain where I was at is my primary goal right now, Araiza said. Im confident that I will be able to regain my NFL career whenever that is. I believe its more of a when, not an if.The defamation lawsuit against the woman, described in court documents only as Jane Doe, was legally basele s, but her first legal bill topped $20,000 and she simply cannot afford to defend herself, her attorney, Dan Gilleon, said in a statement reported by the Plus she has been beat down by Araizas PR campaign and is frankly over it, he said in a text, the news outlet reported.The lawsuit against four Mike Shannon Jersey other former San Diego State University players will continue.An email from The A sociated Pre s seeking comment from Gilleon wasn't immediately answered Tuesday night.Araiza was nicknamed the Punt God and honored as a consensus All-American in 2021 for his booming kicks that helped SDSU to a school-best 12-2 season in his senior year. He was selected by the Bills in the sixth round of the 2022 NFL draft but released two days after the filing of the lawsuit.The woman alleged that she was 17 and attending an off-campus party in October 2021 when Araiza, then 21, had sex with her in a side yard at an off-campus house before bringing her into a bedroom where a group of men took turns raping her. She reported the alleged a sault to San Diego police the Lou Brock Jersey next day.Araiza has said he stayed in the backyard and never entered the home Whitey Herzog Jersey during the party and that he left nearly a half-hour before the alleged raping occurred.He and most of the other players the woman is suing have said their encounters with her were consensual. After a monthlong police investigation, the San Diego County District Attorneys Office announced in December that it . Several media outlets obtained an audio recording of a meeting between prosecutors and the woman in which deputy District Attorney Trisha Amador said she concluded, based on a witne s statement, that Araiza wasnt even at the party anymore when the alleged raping could have occurred and wasnt visible in videos that were recovered. Earlier this year, the New York Jets hosted Araiza for a workout at the teams facility, six days after a San Diego State investigation in connection with the alleged rape.___AP sports: