Packers RB Josh Jacobs not anticipating missing more games - ESPN

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Packers running back Josh Jacobs said he's operating under the assumption that he won't have to sit out any more games than the six he already missed while on the NFL commissioner exempt list despite the release of additional allegations of physical and verbal abuse against him.

Those accounts were included in evidence regarding Jacobs' battery case that the Hobart/Lawrence Police Department released last week in response to a public records request. The records show that three women alleged abuse by Jacobs to the department in incidents dating to April 2021. The women came forward after learning of Jacobs' arrest in connection with an alleged domestic violence incident in May.

Three days after Jacobs' attorneys dismissed the claims as «unsupported and stale allegations,» Jacobs on Wednesday further defended himself.

«It's one of those things for me where it's like, it really feels like an attack on me and who I am and my character,» Jacobs said. «And at the end of the day, there's a lot of stuff being said about me that's completely false — like, completely made up, and it's like people just run with it. And I can't change that.

»It's just one of those things where it's like, OK, all I can do is try to be who I am and try not to let the negative moments change who I am. And that was the biggest thing for me throughout this whole process. I didn't want to go to a place where I felt like I was closed off and I'm angry all the time because of what's going on in my life."

Jacobs pleaded no contest Sept. 10 to charges of battery and criminal destruction of property resulting from the May 23 incident with a woman at his home near Green Bay. He was convicted of battery and fined $1,000 and reached a deferred