{"id":33815,"date":"2025-07-02T23:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33815\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T23:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:24:12","slug":"former-uk-football-star-and-bills-first-round-pick-max-hairston-sued-for-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33815\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UK football star and Bills first-round pick Max Hairston sued for sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Kentucky<\/a> cornerback Maxwell Hairston, who became a first-round draft pick by the Buffalo Bills<\/a> this past April\u2019s NFL Draft<\/a>, is being sued for sexual assault, according to WBKW.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The incident in question allegedly happened in 2021 while Hairston was still at UK. The civil complaint claims that Hairston engaged in non-consensual sexual contact with the plaintiff in her dorm room. <\/p>\n

The woman in question reported the incident to law enforcement at the time, and she later transferred out of UK. The school reportedly investigated the situation when it happened. The Bills also conducted their own investigation during the pre-draft process and concluded that Hairston was innocent. <\/p>\n

Hairston was also never criminally charged.<\/p>\n

Here is what Bills general manager Brandon Beane said about the situation in April.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s (Hairston) an impeccable kid, and we did a lot of research. I think all teams were aware of the Title IX thing. That was fully investigated by the school. He even volunteered to do a polygraph and had notes,\u201d said Beane. \u201cIt was one of those where there was zero information saying that this actually happened to what the accusation was. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t take someone\u2019s account and think that\u2019s the truth. But yes, we fully investigated that. Every person you talk to at Kentucky, teammates, staff there, plus what we\u2019ve done, I would say this is a heck of a young man, every person you ask. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s unfortunate when things like that are attached to someone\u2019s name. In this case, it doesn\u2019t seem to be anything there.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story is developing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Kentucky cornerback Maxwell Hairston, who became a first-round draft pick by the Buffalo Bills this past April\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[190,931,10762,4503,1540,1542,16220,1318,381,19625,204,28134,28137,20420,1317,1315,1316,1539,6535,16221,1538,28136,62,581,28135,3470,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-33815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-assault","11":"tag-bills","12":"tag-blue","13":"tag-exclude-from-stn-video","14":"tag-first","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-for","17":"tag-former","18":"tag-front-page","19":"tag-hairston","20":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-football","21":"tag-max","22":"tag-ncaa","23":"tag-ncaa-football","24":"tag-ncaafootball","25":"tag-of","26":"tag-pick","27":"tag-round","28":"tag-sea","29":"tag-sexual","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-star","32":"tag-sued","33":"tag-uk","34":"tag-united-states","35":"tag-unitedstates","36":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114786222930997313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}