GREEN BAY – A day after Josh Jacobs’ arrest, the Green Bay Packers canceled their previously scheduled player availability following the team’s open practice May 27.
The Packers had listed locker room availability after their first open session of organized team activities. The NFL’s media policy mandates teams must open at least one of every three organized team activity days, and that teams must make head coaches and players available for interviews on OTA days designated to be open.
“The purpose of opening at least one of every three OTA days (not one-third of the total number of OTAs but one of every three) is for media to have at least one mandatory access day in each of the four weeks of Phase Three of a club’s offseason workouts as described in Article 21 of the CBA,” the policy states.
The Packers are holding organized team activity sessions May 26, May 27 and May 29 this week.
Coach Matt LaFleur will still hold his scheduled news conference before the May 27 practice.
Jacobs, a veteran running back and team captain in 2025, was arrested May 26 after police were dispatched to an alleged domestic dispute three days earlier. He faces possible charges of battery – domestic abuse, criminal damage of property – domestic abuse, disorderly conduct – domestic abuse, strangulation and suffocation, and intimidation of a victim, according to a press release from Chief Michael Renkas of the Hobart-Lawrence Police Department.
This article originally appeared on Packers News: Day after Josh Jacobs arrest, Packers cancel player availability
Reporting by Ryan Wood, Green Bay Press-Gazette / Packers News
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