This shit has happened to a ton of athletes. They get targeted for it.
The same thing that happened to my cousin happened to Praise Martin-Oguike, and I mean the exact same thing. The similarity in the stories is shocking. They both got falsely accused of rape by a scorned sidepiece and ended up being exonerated by text messages in which the accuser admitted lying.
When I was young and naive, I didn't think that people like this even existed outside of movies.
One of the few people who's actually been punished for false reporting a sexual assault is Nikki Yovino, who claimed that she was raped for sympathy after the guy that she wanted to date found out that she got (willingly) gangbanged by football players in the bathroom at a party.