FEBRUARY 8: Pearce is currently being held on a $20,500 bond, as noted by ESPN’s Marc Raimondi. He has been assigned to the felony domestic crimes intake unit. A pre-trial conditional stay-away order has also been issued to prevent Pearce from having any contact with Jackson.
FEBRUARY 7: Falcons edge rusher James Pearce Jr. was arrested on Saturday in Doral, Florida and booked in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. 
Booking records indicate Pearce faces two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He has also been charged with one count each of aggravated stalking and fleeing or eluding police with lights or siren. According to Pablo Hernandez of WPLG Local 10 News, Pearce was arrested after crashing his car while fleeing police.
Doral Police was dispatched to a dispute involving one man and one woman. Doral Police Chief Edwin Lopez stated the woman in question was WNBA player Rickea Jackson. Jackson, 24, was selected in the first round of the league’s 2024 draft by the Los Angeles Sparks. Pearce is alleged to have fled the scene prior to ultimately crashing and being detained.
Andy Slater of Fox Sports South Florida reports Pearce is accused of intentionally crashing his Lamborghini into Jackson’s car to prevent her from reaching a police station. It was that incident, he adds, which led to the Pearce police chase.
“We are aware of an incident involving James Pearce Jr., in Miami,” a team statement reads (h/t Josh Kendall of The Athletic). “We are in the process of gathering more information and will not have any further comment on an open legal matter at this time.”
The Falcons made a concerted effort to boost their pass rush during the opening round of the 2025 draft. After selecting Jalon Walker 15th overall, Atlanta traded back into the Day 1 order and added Pearce with pick No. 26. The arrival of both players proved highly impactful in upgrading the Falcons’ production along the edge. Pearce, 22, collected 10.5 sacks and 16 quarterback hits in 2025. Those totals helped him finish third in Defensive Rookie of the Year voting.
Pearce’s bond has yet to be set, according to the WPLG piece. His arrest report has not yet been made available, it adds, limiting details on the nature of the alleged incident.
Praying for the victim 🙏 let’s hope she’s safe and that this guy stays away…..will the NFL take this serious this time ???
Yikes
I guess these are some of those character concerns coming to life on why he was still around at number 26 in the NFL Draft despite the talent on the field obviously being there.
Wonder if this is a Falcons induced suspension or a NFL one
I bet the league will make an example of him, he’ll get a two game suspension & they’ll make him take a class & read an apology written by his lawyer!
He’s probably doing time
Probably less than Vick got for dogfighting. Its ridiculous how sentences are determined.
Also make sure to buy all the pink merch and a pink jersey for your wife in October. Not because the NFL makes money on it! It’s because they care about the wellbeing of women!
Come on man you just had a an amazing rookie year why do all these stupid nonsense smh
His career as a Falcon or any NFL team just ended.
My goodness smh
Leonard Little says “wanna bet?”
You think? Aldon Smith, Randy Gregory and a few others had multiple arrests similar to this and kept getting chances over and over….Either way its not looking good.
He’s going to jail for a long time. He resisted five cops in broad daylight. He’s definitely not playing another game for the Falcons.
Gregory didn’t do anything this crazy. But yeah Aldon was a lunatic.
We don’t have 26′ 1st round pick and now won’t have our 25′ pick either. We can’t have nice things smh…6 game suspension? Plus whatever jail time he gets? What a dumb decision geez
Bro multiple charges? I saw the video he was resisting like 5 cops in broad daylight. SMH this seems way worse than handful of suspensions. Smh man
Oh gotcha, I figured it would be way worse after reports are filed and released than what I read above. Haven’t seen the video…then yeah he’s probably cooked. Great 🙄
Just watched the video, the high speed chase (that’s on camera anyways) looks like they’re going 40mph lol….but its actually 7 cops trying to detain him geez!
Damn 7???! Man he’s cooked !!
Maybe. I can tell you from personal experience that some jurisdictions (many jurisdictions) don’t care about resisting arrest that much, and some solicitors just treat it as an easy charge to drop for a plea.
Bonds seems low, honestly. But that’s all I’ll say. More things go into this process than any of us are privy to.
Another guy who seems destined to waste his talents on being in jail. Amazing to me. So Cunningham starts off behind the 8 ball. Sad.
A challenge for new President Ryan and GM Cunningham. Make a stand against this behavior and release Pearce. Enough is enough.
He will probably get out make a big turnaround come back to the nfl then snap and kill a woman
Wow.
Everybody who looked into drafting him clearly knew him getting himself arrested was a risk but wow.
Hit her car multiple times, allegedly hit a police officer. Not the car, but the officer.
This dude might have just out of the NFL with this
That’s what Im thinking. He’s looking at years behind bars.
Yikes. One of the weird parts of the Falcons trading a future first to draft him was that he had character concerns, but I don’t think it was this realm.
The city is full of these clowns
“We are aware of an incident involving James Pearce Jr.,” a team statement reads. “We are in the process of regretting our decision to trade a 2025 2nd and a 2026 1st for him and will not have any further comment at this time.”
Imprison him for 20 years.
This is the NFL, my dude. He’ll get 20 minutes.
You do realize that the NFL doesn’t determine jail time? He won’t get work release
They do hold a lot of influence (and campaign dollars)…
Nope
I feel awful for Rickea having to deal with a monster of an ex.
Yeah. She’s actually a great player
Indeed she is. I’ve been looking forward to seeing her play with a hopefully healthy Cameron Brink this forthcoming WNBA season, assuming there is one.
Saul Goodman is the type of lawyer he’s gonna need.
If anyone can get him out of trouble it’s Saul…better call Saul!
They may have to trade him to the Chiefs
They’ll trade a 7th for him and a 1st rounder if you want to give more bad publicity there. That’s the type of cost he should be. They’re better off just releasing him.
He probably got frustrated at looking up at Jackson in heels?
I defended that trade because he played well and produced and looked like he was on his way to becoming a pass rushing star. I was wrong. He’s on his way to becoming a total joke. Horrible trade. Rehire Fontenot just so you can fire him again. This is a great reminder that you cannot ignore character flaws when drafting players.
100%. It’s never going to change with these young players. The league should have ZERO tolerance for stuff like this and make his punishment something where guys are gonna think twice about what they’re doing and who they’re around. Because if you let things go with a slap on the wrist suspensions, before you know it, you have yourself a situation like you have with Darron Lee
Dunno, but “aggravated battery with a deadly weapon,” presumably the Lamborghini being the weapon, sounds seriously serious, like a felony. And fleeing from the cops—dude doesn’t realize there’s such a thing as police dashcam video?
Some dudes don’t understand that no matter how much you invest in her, you don’t own her.
Have some dignity (to say nothing of decency and rationality) and move on.
Wow
I’m assuming Miami law enforcement has a special NFL unit that just follows these guys around until they do something stupid.
All jokes aside, they should.
Never understood why a guy would go to such lengths to keep a woman from leaving him. If she doesn’t want to be with you now what makes you think she will want to stay after you beat her up and wreck her car? His life is done, but she gets to walk away free as a bird. You really got her didn’t you! That’ll teach her! Don’t mess with Inmate 5347865134668.
You would be surprised by how many women attempt to contact psychopaths and serial killers in prison hoping to develop a romantic relationship.
Sad to see the physical talent this man/child possesses wasted by a 10 cent brain and inability to control emotions.
Only 20k bond? Seems light.
Wow way to make your mom look like a fool at that Honor show after the nice things she was saying.
This type of allegations, he needs to be buried underneath the prison. Just saying! Praying 🙏🏻 for the victim here.
Intentionally crashed into his ex’s car
Hit a cop with his lambo
Then fled on foot
22 yr old massive idiot who just ended a promising career. Give him significant jailtime
Why is great talent wasted on the dumbest morons??