{"id":176248,"date":"2025-07-02T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/176248\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:36:15","slug":"former-uk-football-player-1st-round-nfl-draft-pick-accused-of-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/176248\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UK football player &#038; 1st-round NFL draft pick accused of sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Buffalo Bills first-round draft pick Maxwell Hairston faces a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault in 2021. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Kentucky and alleges Hairston entered a woman\u2019s dorm room uninvited and assaulted her while he was on the Kentucky football team.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/7Q22NG66SFG4BCCZJFMQ43MG6E.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bills declined to comment but referred to earlier remarks by general manager Brandon Beane, who said the team had investigated the allegations and found no substance to them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hairston was drafted 30th overall in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He is competing for a starting cornerback position. The Bills resume training camp later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Buffalo Bills first-round draft pick Maxwell Hairston faces a lawsuit accusing him of sexual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[53,7,993,4528,1495,6,7279],"class_list":{"0":"post-176248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kentucky","11":"tag-kentucky-football","12":"tag-maxwell-hairston","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114785090812260945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}