PITTSBURGH — One of three men acquitted last month of trying to carjack the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mike Adams sued the lineman Tuesday, saying Adams lied when he claimed the man had a gun and threatened Adams.

Adams and Allegheny County prosecutors claimed Dquay Means, 26, threatened Adams with a gun when he exited a restaurant about 3 a.m. June 1, and attempted to steal his car. Another of the defendants allegedly stabbed Adams instead, and the men ran away. Adams was hospitalized for four days.

The defendants argued at their trial last month that the encounter wasn’t a carjacking but a fight that began when a drunken Adams knocked food out of the hands of one the men. Means and Jerrell Whitlock, 27, the man who accused of stabbing Adams, were acquitted of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, conspiracy and attempted robbery. Means was convicted only of escape, which involved his flight from police once he knew he was wanted.

Michael Paranay, 26, the man who claimed Adams knocked his food from him, was also acquitted of all charges against him. Paranay’s attorney argued at trial that Adams was the aggressor and “obliterated drunk, aggressive and out of control.”