A police report had noted that a friend of Revis’s joined the altercation, but it did not specify who had thrown the punches. TMZ Sports subsequently published a video that showed the two men lying on the pavement, with an unseen voice saying, “I knocked both of these out.” Revis’s lawyer denied that was the voice of his client, and some reporters who have covered the Jets agreed that it did not sound like the star player.

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On Tuesday, Rashawn Bolton, who grew up in the same Pittsburgh-area town, Aliquippa, as Revis did, took responsibility for punching the men. Bolton’s attorney said that his client would cooperate with prosecutors if they chose to pursue a possible case against him.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Bolton testified that he and Revis had gone to a bar at around 11:30 p.m. and left separately shortly after 2 a.m. Not long after that, Bolton said he got a call from Revis, who told him that “some guys were trying to jump him.”

Bolton said that when he arrived at the scene, he saw the men grabbing Revis’s waist and neck. When he pulled one man off, that person came at Bolton, who knocked him out with one punch. The same thing then happened with the other man. “I defended myself and I punched him, too,” Mr. Bolton said of the second man.

In previous testimony, both men said they didn’t know who had punched them. One of them told the court that, during the altercation, Revis said that he did not “need to deal with this and he would have his boys take care of it.”

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Revis was described as visibly relieved after the judge’s ruling, although he could still face a civil trial from one or both of the men. Having been released by the Jets, Revis is a free agent, one from whom NFL teams may have stayed away while his trial played out.

Of the possibility of playing for his hometown Steelers, the former Pitt Panther said, “That would be great.”

“As a child I watched the Steelers play,” Revis said (via NFL.com). “Went to a few games as a young child. I played there in high school and college, so to play there professionally that would be awesome too. We’ll see. Hopefully we’ll have a conversation with the Steelers and see if we can come up with something.”