Packers’ Josh Jacobs faces fresh abuse allegations from three women in police records

As police investigated the battery case involving Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs following a May altercation with his then-girlfriend, multiple other women contacted them to detail their own allegations against him.

Those accounts were included in evidence regarding Jacobs’ battery case that the Hobart/Lawrence Police Department released on Friday night in response to a public records request. Green Bay TV station NBC 26 first reported the records’ release.

Jacobs pleaded no contest on 10 September to misdemeanor counts of battery and criminal damage to property. He was arrested on 26 May, three days after an incident in which a woman said he threw her to the ground.

It is unclear how the latest allegations will play into the NFL’s investigation into Jacobs. The league placed him on the commissioner’s exempt list in August after charges were filed against him, causing Jacobs to miss the Packers’ first six games of the season.

The NFL is still investigating Jacobs over the incident that led to his May arrest, so the league could impose further discipline on the running back.

Jacobs’ lawyers – David Z Chesnoff, Richard A Schonfeld and Clarence F Duchac III – issued a statement on Saturday on their client’s behalf:

“The Brown County District Attorney’s office had these uncorroborated, old, and previously unreported allegations for months. They conducted their own exhaustive investigation, along with the police department, and the D.A. determined that only two misdemeanor charges were warranted. They then entered into a plea agreement with Josh Jacobs. Josh has repeatedly expressed his remorse and is honoring the terms of the agreement.”

The Packers had no immediate comment.

According to the records released on Friday, one woman contacted police after Jacobs’ arrest to say she had experienced a similar incident with him around 2023. She later said the incident had actually occurred on 5 January 2022.

The woman said she had communicated with Jacobs for about six months before spending around 11 hours at his home. She said that after she told Jacobs she had not come there for sex, he became angry, slapped her across the face and told her not to disrespect him.

She said he took her phone and threw it into a swimming pool when she attempted to leave, and that he grabbed her by the hair, threw her on to a bed, pinned her down, threw her to the floor and said: “I should kill you right now.” She said Jacobs also spat on her.

The woman said she had not previously reported the incident to law enforcement because she remained friends with Jacobs afterward and was concerned her allegations would not be believed. She said she contacted police this time because she believed it showed a pattern of behaviour similar to the allegations in the May case.

Another woman told police she had sex with Jacobs in April 2021. She said his condom broke, so she told Jacobs to get tested for sexually transmitted infections because they had both been involved with other people.

The woman said Jacobs later removed her from the residence, grabbed her by the arms and biceps, pushed her against a wall and threw her belongings out. She told police she sustained bruises to her arms and swelling around her ribs.

Hobart/Lawrence police said they obtained records from that incident indicating that officers observed “no visible signs of injury, bruising or damage consistent with a physical altercation”.

Another woman said she met Jacobs through social media and that he flew her to a residence in May 2022. She described an altercation in which Jacobs grabbed her by the hair, placed his hands on her head and neck, dragged her, scratched her chest and took her phone after it fell to the floor.

The woman said she suffered bruises to her arm and scratches to her chest and neck. She said she did not report the incident to police because she was not a US citizen at the time and Jacobs told her she could be deported.

Jacobs is a three-time Pro Bowl selection who led the NFL in rushing in 2022 for the Las Vegas Raiders, where he played when the three previous incidents were alleged to have occurred. He joined the Packers in 2024.

He returned two weeks ago and scored twice in the team’s Thursday night win over the Carolina Panthers, celebrating one of the touchdowns by briefly placing his hands behind his back. The move drew immediate backlash from viewers in light of his off-season arrest, but Jacobs said he was modelling his celebration after a gospel song called Break Every Chain.

The records released on Friday also offered more details of the 23 May incident that led to Jacobs’ arrest. According to the criminal complaint released in August, the woman told police Jacobs grabbed her and threw her to the ground as she was trying to exit through a garage door, causing her to hit her head. Police said Jacobs also took her phone while she was on the ground.

The records released on Friday noted that the woman said that while they were still in the home, Jacobs lunged at her, pinned her on the bed with his body weight on her chest and put his hand over her mouth and nose, leaving her feeling unable to breathe.

She also indicated that she believed she briefly lost consciousness when the confrontation moved to the garage.