The NFL said Saturday, Oct. 31, that its continuing investigation into Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs will include additional allegations of physical and verbal abuse disclosed in newly released police records. Three women reported alleged incidents dating back to April 2021 to the Hobart/Lawrence Police Department after learning about his arrest in connection with an alleged domestic violence incident in May.

The department released the allegations Friday night in response to a public records request, along with investigative reports and footage from officers' body cameras and a police vehicle camera. Jacobs pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery and criminal damage to property charges arising from the May case. The league said its investigation had remained open and that the additional allegations would be reviewed within that inquiry.

In a statement emailed Saturday, Jacobs' attorneys, David Z. Chesnoff, Richard A. Schonfeld and Clarence F. Duchac III, characterized the additional allegations as old, uncorroborated and previously unreported. They said the Brown County District Attorney's office had possessed them for months and, following an extensive investigation with police, determined that two misdemeanor charges were warranted. The attorneys said Jacobs had repeatedly expressed remorse and was complying with his plea agreement.

The records included a partly redacted, 129-page report detailing the initial accuser's account. She told investigators that Jacobs tried to strangle or suffocate her twice during the alleged assault, something she said he had never done to her before. Police recorded that she described him as enraged and feared she would die. A recording of a May 23 emergency call captured a male yelling in the background, but the connection ended before anyone spoke with police. Officers were dispatched to investigate a possible disturbance.

According to the woman's account in the report, the confrontation began after she accused Jacobs of communicating with other women. She alleged that he initially prevented her from leaving the home and broke her phone. She also said he grabbed her neck in the garage and threw her to the ground, causing her head to strike the concrete and leaving her unconscious. After regaining consciousness, she reported difficulty walking, blurred vision and dots or stars in her vision.

The woman subsequently sought help at a neighbor's home, the report said. Investigators also spoke with two friends who had communicated with her through calls and text messages in the hours afterward. Their accounts were consistent with hers, according to the documents, but neither had witnessed the incident. Both were relaying what she had told them.

Some material, including garage surveillance footage, was withheld. Jacobs and the woman both sued the department to prevent the records from being released. In a letter explaining its decision, police said they would have disclosed the garage footage with the woman's entire body pixelated if restrictions had not prevented its release.

Jacobs was arrested May 26 after officers stopped a vehicle in which he was a passenger. He told police he had given his cellphone to his attorneys and intended to surrender. After being advised of his rights at the station, he said he wanted his lawyer present before making a statement. During a brief subsequent exchange captured on camera, he asserted that he had done nothing wrong and questioned the fairness of the situation.