Los Angeles Rams receiver Puka Nacua has been accused of biting a woman, and then making antisemitic comments on New Years Eve, according to reports.
The alleged victim, in a request for a temporary restraining order obtained by US Weekly, said Nacua started making questionable remarks the night of Dec. 31, 2025, during a group dinner in Century City, California.
“F–k all the Jews,” the footballer allegedly said, upsetting those in his company.
According to the filing, it was the “first act in what became an escalating course of rude or vulgar, threatening, violent and harassing conduct.”
After dinner, the group piled into a Sprinter van, where the 24-year-old NFL star suddenly became “touchy-feely.” At one point, he allegedly “dropped his head into [her] girlfriend’s lap and crotch area and bit her thumb so forcefully that she screamed in acute pain.”
The woman claimed Nacua bit her next, breaking the skin on her left shoulder. She included a picture of the alleged bite mark in her request for a restraining order.
A day later, the woman said she filed a police report, according to TMZ. Then, in March 2026, both parties sat down for a mediation conference, during which Nacua’s team allegedly threatened to “contact TMZ and other press and media outlets and to disseminate false, inaccurate, and/or deliberately exaggerated public statements about the events of December 31, 2025.”
Levi McCathern, the athlete’s attorney, has since pushed back on the allegations, blasting them as a shakedown. He noted the woman involved has requested millions of dollars to not go public with her claims.
“Puka denies these allegations in the strongest possible terms,” McCathern said in a statement to USA Today. “We will be filing a defamation lawsuit and pursuing all available legal remedies in response to these false and damaging statements.”
Addressing the antisemitic remark specifically, McCathern added: “A completely sober witness has stated unequivocally that Puka never made the comments.” He also brushed off the bite mark as “horseplay.”
Back in December 2025, Nacua apologized after making a gesture widely perceived to antisemitic during a livestream with influencer Adin Ross.
“At the time, I had no idea this act was antisemitic in nature and perpetuated harmful stereotypes against Jewish people,” he said in a statement. “I deeply apologize to anyone who was offended by my actions as I do not stand for any form of racism, bigotry or hate of another group of people.”