GREEN BAY, Wis. — Three more women have accused Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs of abuse, according to police records released Friday night, months after his arrest on domestic-violence charges involving his then-girlfriend.
The Hobart/Lawrence Police Department released the evidence from Jacobs' battery case in response to a public-records request, with Green Bay television station NBC 26 first reporting its contents. The records include statements from several women who contacted investigators about their own alleged encounters with Jacobs while police were weighing charges over the May incident, according to an Associated Press report.
What the Records Describe
One woman told police that after roughly six months of communication with Jacobs, she spent about 11 hours at his home and said that when she told him she had not come for sex, he became angry, slapped her, threw her phone into a pool when she tried to leave, and pinned her after grabbing her hair. She said she did not report the incident at the time because she and Jacobs remained friends and she feared she would not be believed; she came forward, she said, because she recognized a pattern similar to the May case.
A second woman said she had sex with Jacobs in April 2021 and that, after a condom broke and she told him to get tested, he later grabbed her arms, pushed her against a wall and threw her belongings out of the residence; she reported bruising on her arms and swelling near her ribs. The Hobart/Lawrence department said its own records from that incident showed officers observed "no visible signs of injury, bruising or damage consistent with a physical altercation." A third woman, who met Jacobs through social media, said he flew her to a residence in May 2022 where he grabbed her hair and neck, dragged her and scratched her chest; she said she did not report the incident at the time because she was not a US citizen and said Jacobs told her she could be deported.
None of the three women's accounts has resulted in new charges. The newly released records also add detail to the May 23 case that led to Jacobs' arrest: the woman involved said he lunged at her inside the home, pinned her to a bed and put his hand over her mouth and nose, and that she believed she briefly lost consciousness before the confrontation moved to the garage, where he threw her to the ground.
Where the Case Stands
Jacobs was arrested on May 26 and pleaded no contest on September 10 to misdemeanor counts of battery and criminal damage to property — charges that did not include a domestic-violence enhancement. The NFL placed Jacobs on the commissioner's exempt list in August after he was charged, barring him from the Packers' first six games of the season. He has since been reinstated and has played in two games for Green Bay. The league's investigation into the original incident remains open and could still lead to discipline.
Jacobs, a three-time Pro Bowl selection who joined the Packers from the Las Vegas Raiders in 2024, remains on the team's active roster, and neither he nor his attorneys have issued a new statement since the records' release; his lawyers said in August that the allegations would be addressed in court rather than in the media. NBC 26 reported that some material covered by the records request, including video, was withheld by police. Jacobs is due back in court on November 17.
The records' release comes two days after the Packers' 27-19 win over the Carolina Panthers in Thursday night's game, their second start for Jacobs since his reinstatement. Under the NFL's personal-conduct policy, the league can discipline a player independently of any criminal case outcome, and the Jacobs matter — now widened by police records the department itself has not fully released, with some material described by NBC 26 as withheld — gives the league's ongoing review considerably more material to weigh than the single May complaint it opened with.
