An NFL running back who led the league in rushing in 2022 has been arrested on domestic violence charges.
Josh Jacobs of the Green Bay Packers was arrested Tuesday on charges of battery, criminal damage to property, disorderly conduct, strangulation and suffocation, and intimidation of a victim, the Hobart-Lawrence Police Department said, according to TMZ.
Police said they were dispatched Saturday morning to an alleged disturbance involving Jacobs, but he was not taken into custody until Tuesday.
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Jacobs’ attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, said he “vehemently denies the allegations.”
After a complaint on May 23 and a subsequent investigation, Packers RB Josh Jacobs was arrested this morning and booked into Brown County Jail on five charges: battery/domestic abuse, criminal damage to property/domestic abuse, disorderly conduct/domestic abuse, strangulation and… pic.twitter.com/J8AORPMGC6
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 26, 2026
Jacobs had previously been arrested in 2021 on suspicion of DUI.
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