BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff was accused battery, assault, and intentional infliction of emotional distress in a recent civil lawsuit filed by an unidentified female in Salt Lake County, Utah, according to the The Salt Lake Tribune.

A prominent Salt Lake City lawyer who has been on both sides of the aisle as a sex crimes prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney said that the civil lawsuit filed Wednesday against Jake Retzlaff — alleging that the BYU quarterback committed assault and battery on a Salt Lake County woman 18 months ago — is “problematic and damaging,

A Salt Lake County woman is suing BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff in civil court for alleged battery, assault, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. She alleges he sexually assaulted her in 2023.