Suit accusing BYU QB Retzlaff of rape dismissed

A civilian suit accusing BYU backmost Jake Retzlaff of rape has been dismissed, according to tribunal records.

The parties jointly agreed to disregard with prejudice, ending the lawsuit which was filed past month. None of the parties were instantly disposable for comment.

Retzlaff present plans to transportation from BYU arsenic helium faces a imaginable seven-game suspension for violating the school's grant codification by admitting to premarital enactment during the ineligible proceedings, sources told ESPN. He has begun informing unit and teammates of his volition to leave, sources said.

Retzlaff had been moving retired with the squad and participating successful summertime workouts and practices. The squad is connected interruption until July 7.

The BYU unit has been ramping up the mentation of the 3 backup quarterbacks -- McCae Hillstead, Treyson Bourguet and Bear Bachmeier -- successful anticipation that Retzlaff mightiness not beryllium available.

The pistillate alleged Retzlaff raped, strangled and spot her successful November 2023. In a effect to that suit filed Friday, a lawyer representing Retzlaff denied those allegations but said Retzlaff had consensual enactment with the woman.

The effect indicated Retzlaff and the pistillate traded lighthearted substance messages for months aft the brushwood and characterized the suit arsenic an extortion effort based connected the thought that Retzlaff developed into an NFL imaginable astir a twelvemonth later.

The suit described the brushwood overmuch differently.

Both the ailment and the effect hold that Retzlaff and the pistillate connected done societal media, which led to her visiting Retzlaff's flat to play video games connected oregon astir Nov. 22, 2023. The pistillate arrived with a friend, and friends and teammates of Retzlaff besides were present.

Later that evening, the woman's person left, aft which Retzlaff and the pistillate started watching a movie and began to kiss, the suit states. While "Retzlaff began escalating the situation," the suit says, "Jane Doe A.G. tried to de-escalate the concern and attempted to dilatory things down, trying to propulsion away, and saying 'wait.' She did not privation to bash thing intersexual with him."

The suit says the pistillate told Retzlaff "no" and "wait, stop," but helium continued to unit himself connected her. After she tried to get up retired of the bed, the suit alleges, successful graphic detail, that Retzlaff enactment his hands astir her cervix and proceeded to rape her.

A fewer days later, the pistillate visited a hospital, wherever a rape kit was performed and pictures of her injuries were taken. The suit says she was connected with Provo, Utah, constabulary but did not initially stock Retzlaff's name.

No transgression charges person been filed against Retzlaff.

After the suit was filed, BYU issued a statement, saying: "The assemblage takes immoderate allegation precise seriously, pursuing each processes and guidelines mandated by Title IX. Due to national and assemblage privateness laws and practices for students, the assemblage volition not beryllium capable to supply further comment."

Retzlaff is not the archetypal high-profile BYU jock who faced a lengthy suspension for an grant codification usurpation related to premarital sex. In 2011, hoops subordinate Brandon Davies was dismissed from the squad -- which astatine the clip was 27-2 and ranked No. 3 successful the state -- and suspended from school. He was reinstated that fall. In 1999, moving backmost Reno Mahe was suspended from schoolhouse and forced to permission the shot team. He transferred to a inferior assemblage and aboriginal reenrolled astatine BYU.

Retzlaff, who has graduated from BYU, is expected to participate his sanction successful the transportation portal successful the coming days. He started 13 games for the Cougars successful 2024, his archetypal twelvemonth arsenic the starter, starring the squad to an 11-2 record. He passed for 2,947 yards and 20 touchdowns with 12 interceptions.