Player facts
- Team
Green Bay Packers- Position
- Running Back
- Number
- 8
- Born
- Feb 11, 1998 (age 28)
- Birthplace
- Tulsa, OK, USA
- Height
- 5' 10"
- Weight
- 223 lbs
- College
- Alabama
- Experience
- 8 seasons
- Status
- News
Stats
2025 Offense
| CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LNG | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LNG | FUM | LST | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular Season | 234 | 929 | 4.0 | 13 | 40 | 36 | 282 | 7.8 | 1 | 31 | 3 | 2 |
| Postseason | 19 | 55 | 2.9 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Career | 1840 | 7,803 | 4.2 | 74 | 86 | 269 | 2,072 | 7.7 | 2 | 49 | 18 | 12 |
Recent games
| Rushing | Receiving | Fumbles | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Opponent | Result | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LNG | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LNG | FUM | LST |
@  CHI | L 31-27 | 19 | 55 | 2.9 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
vs  BAL | L 41-24 | 4 | 3 | 0.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| @ CHI | L 22-16 OT | 12 | 36 | 3.0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | |
@  DEN | L 34-26 | 12 | 73 | 6.1 | 1 | 40 | 2 | 19 | 9.5 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| vs CHI | W 28-21 | 20 | 86 | 4.3 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
Last 5 games. Click a game for its box score.
About
Joshua Cordell Jacobs (born February 11, 1998) is an American professional football running back for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the first round of the 2019 NFL draft. Jacobs rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his first two seasons, while being named to NFL All-Rookie Team in 2019 and to his first Pro Bowl in 2020. In 2022, he led the league in rushing yards with 1,653 and became the first Raider since 1985 to surpass 2,000 scrimmage yards. After five years with the Raiders, Jacobs signed with the Packers in 2024.
From Wikipedia’s article on Josh Jacobs, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.1
Background
Early life
Jacobs attended McLain High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During his high school football career, he had 5,372 yards and 56 touchdowns for the Titans. He committed to play college football at the University of Alabama.
Jacobs experienced homelessness in middle school. At the end of his rookie season in the NFL, he was featured in a Kia commercial reflecting on his experience with homelessness, which aired during Super Bowl LIV.
College career
As a freshman at Alabama in 2016, Jacobs split time with Damien Harris and Bo Scarbrough, rushing 85 times for 567 yards and four touchdowns. As a sophomore in 2017, he had 284 yards on 46 carries with one touchdown. After the season, it was revealed that he had been playing on a broken ankle for most of the season. As a junior, he was named the MVP of the 2018 SEC Championship Game against the Georgia Bulldogs after rushing for 83 yards with two touchdowns.
Personal life
Jacobs is of American descent with Filipino descent through his paternal grandmother, a native of Angeles City. He has a portrait of her tattooed on his left hand. He plays with the Philippine-flag stickered onto his helmet and has a tattoo of the Philippines' eight-rayed golden-yellow sun on his left biceps.
Jacobs' younger brother, Isaiah Jacobs, played running back for the UAB Blazers from 2020 to 2025.
Jacobs is Christian.
On May 26, 2026, Jacobs was arrested by the Hobart-Lawrence Police Department in Brown County, Wisconsin, stemming from an incident on May 23. He was booked on five domestic battery-related charges. On May 27, Jacobs was released from jail with the investigation remaining pending.
From Wikipedia’s article on Josh Jacobs, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full article.1
Packers’ next games
Recent results
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Sources
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- 1WikipediaJosh Jacobs on Wikipedia
- 2Wikimedia CommonsPhoto of Josh Jacobs