Other women contacted police about
previous incidents with Packers' Josh Jacobs after his arrest
[October 31, 2026]
By STEVE MEGARGEE
As police investigated whether to file charges against 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 Friday
night in response to a public records request. Green Bay TV station
NBC 26 first reported the records release.
Jacobs pleaded no contest Sept. 10 to misdemeanor counts of battery
and criminal damage to property. Jacobs was arrested May 26, three
days after an incident in which a woman said he threw her to the
ground.
According to the records that were released Friday night, one woman
contacted police after Jacobs’ arrest to say she had experience a
similar incident with him around 2023. She later would say the
incident actually occurred on Jan. 5, 2022.
The woman said she had communicated with Jacobs for about six months
before spending about 11 hours at his home. The woman said that
after she told Jacobs she hadn’t 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 onto a bed, pinned her down, threw her to the floor and said
that “I should kill you right now.” She said Jacobs also spit on
her.
The woman said that she hadn’t previously reported the incident to
law enforcement because she remained friends with Jacobs afterward
and was concerned her allegations wouldn’t be believed. The woman
said she contacted police this time because she believed it showed a
pattern of behavior similar to the allegations in the May case.
Another woman told police she had sex with Jacobs in April 2021. The
woman said that his condom broke, so she told Jacobs to get tested
for sexually transmitted diseases because they both had been
involved with other people.
The woman said Jacobs later removed her from the residence, grabbed
her by the arms and bicep area, pushed her against a wall and threw
her belongings out. She told police that she sustained bruises to
her arms and swelling in her rib area.
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Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs works out during NFL
football practice, June 9, 2026, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Kayla
Wolf, File)
Hobart/Lawrence police said they obtained records
from that incident indicating 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 got bruises on her arm and scratches to her chest
and neck. She said she didn’t report the incident to police because
she wasn’t a U.S. citizen at the time and that Jacobs told her she
could be deported.
The records released Friday also offered more details of the May 23
incident that led to Jacobs’ arrest. According to the criminal
complaint released in August, the woman told them that Jacobs
grabbed her and threw her to the ground as she was trying to exit a
garage door, causing her to hit her head. Police said Jacobs also
took her phone from her while she was on the ground.
The records released Friday noted 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 that he put his hand on her
mouth and nose, so that she felt she couldn’t breathe.
She also indicated that she believed she lost consciousness for a
brief time when the confrontation moved to the garage.
Jacobs has played two games with the Packers since being removed
from the commissioner’s exempt list, which had prevented him from
playing or practicing with the team. The NFL placed him on that list
in August after charges were filed against him, and that caused
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 still could hand out more discipline
to the three-time Pro Bowl running back.
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