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Alaric Jackson will play for the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday despite being sued this week by a woman who alleges he recorded sexual acts with her on his phone without her consent.
Rams head coach Sean McVay said the team won't suspend or remove Jackson from its lineup before Los Angeles hosts the Seattle Seahawks in a mouth-watering NFC showdown.
'We're keeping those things in-house,' McVay said Friday. 'This is something that was a previous incident, so as he goes through that process, we'll deal with those things behind the scenes.
'I was made aware. There won't be any actions as it relates to Alaric as far as his status for the game this week.'
Jackson was suspended for the first two games of the 2024 season for an undisclosed violation of the NFL's personal conduct policy.
However, the reason was not publicly revealed until the woman filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday.
Alaric Jackson is being sued by a woman who alleges he recorded sexual acts with her on his phone without her consent
The unnamed woman's lawsuit alleges that Jackson recorded her during sex without her permission, refused to delete the video a number of times and then later taunted her with it.
The woman, from Philadelphia, says she reported the May 2024 incident to the NFL, which subsequently suspended Jackson. The Rams then re-signed Jackson to a three-year, $57million deal in February 2025.
When Jackson returned from his suspension last season, he declined to go into the reasons he was banned, only saying it was 'definitely selfish' to hurt his team with his off-field actions.
'I can't really say anything about it,' Jackson said after practice Friday. 'It's a court case, a legal matter.'
The woman alleges she met Jackson on Instagram and he invited her to visit him in Los Angeles in May 2024.
The lawsuit states she knocked his phone away during sex and later discovered he had been recording without consent.
After demanding he delete it immediately, Jackson is accused of refusing to do so and telling her 'she "would never know" whether the recording was truly deleted.'
She returned to Philadelphia the following day but continued to insist that Jackson delete the video. The suit claims at one point Jackson told her he had deleted it but then sent it to her the next day.
Rams head coach Sean McVay said the team won't suspend or remove Jackson from its lineup
The woman's attorneys say there is no suggestion Jackson posted the video online or shared it with anybody.
She claims she has suffered 'emotional distress, loss of privacy, and psychological harm' and cites violations of gender violence and revenge porn laws, along with allegations of invasion of privacy, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, and fraud in the lawsuit.
Jackson said he has spoken to McVay about the lawsuit this week. He hasn't addressed the trouble with his teammates, and he doesn't plan to do so.
When asked what he had learned from this experience, Jackson replied: 'Just to move forward, honestly, with my life.'
A dual citizen of Canada and the U.S., Jackson is in his third season as Los Angeles' starting left tackle after initially making the roster as an undrafted free agent out of Iowa. He was a rookie backup lineman during the Rams' Super Bowl championship season in 2021-22.
Jackson has started all nine games this season despite missing the preseason and training camp while getting treatment for a recurrence of the blood clots that forced him to miss the second half of the 2022 season. He has started 38 games and all three of the Rams' playoff games since then.
