Ravens kicker Justin Tucker denied allegations Thursday that he acted inappropriately with six massage therapists at four luxury spas and wellness centers around the Baltimore area.

Tucker described the detailed accounts from six therapists who spoke anonymously with The Baltimore Banner as “unequivocally false.”

Meanwhile, attorneys for four therapists who shared their alleged experiences involving Tucker said that their clients felt “comfort” and “validation” after allegations against the seven-time Pro Bowl kicker came to light.

Managers from two spas said Tucker was banned from their establishments, The Banner reported. The accounts from the six therapists included details of Tucker “exposing his genitals, brushing two of them with his exposed penis, and leaving what they believed to be ejaculate on the massage table after three of his treatments,” The Banner reported. The alleged incidents occurred between 2012 and 2016, The Banner reported.

Tucker denied the allegations in a lengthy statement posted Thursday afternoon on X.

“The allegations in The Baltimore Banner article about me are unequivocally false,” he wrote. “Throughout my career as a professional athlete, I have always sought to conduct myself with the utmost professionalism. I have never before been accused of misconduct of any kind, and I have never been accused of acting inappropriately in front of a massage therapist or during a massage therapy session or during other bodywork. I have never received any complaints from a massage therapist, have never been dismissed from a massage therapy or bodywork session, and have never been told that I was not welcome at any spa or other place of business.”

Tucker wrote that The Banner report “takes innocuous, or ambiguous, interactions and skews them so out of proportion they are no longer recognizable, and it presents vague insinuations as fact. This is desperate tabloid fodder.”

A Ravens spokesman said, “We are aware of the Baltimore Banner’s story regarding Justin Tucker. We take any allegations of this nature seriously and will continue to monitor the situation.”

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said that “we take any allegation seriously and will look into the matter,” and that the league “first became aware of the allegations from the reporter investigating this story as they were not previously shared with the NFL.”

Tucker, 35, has been the Ravens’ kicker since 2012 and is regarded as perhaps the greatest ever at his position and a likely Pro Football Hall of Fame selection. The Texas native was a hero of the Ravens’ championship run in his rookie season, making the game-winning field goal in the team’s “Mile High Miracle” playoff victory in Denver and hitting from 38 yards to provide the final margin of victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 47.

He’s one of the most popular players on the team and a ubiquitous television presence in Baltimore as the pitchman for Royal Farms. The New York Times Magazine and “60 Minutes” have profiled him as a record-setting athlete who sings opera in multiple languages in his downtime.

Tucker is a Catholic who has talked openly about his faith and has used his singing talent to raise funds for the Baltimore-based nonprofit Catholic Charities. He sang “Ave Maria” at the organization’s Christmas Festival in 2015 and “O Holy Night” at the same festival in 2016, raising money to benefit a program for adults with intellectual disabilities. A spokesman for Catholic Charities said Thursday the nonprofit does not have a partnership with Tucker.

Tucker is set to enter the second season of the four-year, $24 million contract extension he signed with the Ravens in August 2022. Though he struggled for much of the 2024 season, making a career-low 73.3% of his field goal attempts, Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta said last week: “I think I have every expectation that Justin’s going to be a great kicker for us next year and moving forward.”

Attorneys for Tucker denied the allegations of inappropriate behavior to The Banner, calling them speculative and “impossible to prove” and saying Tucker had never been banned from the spas. The kicker’s attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for further comment.

Attorneys representing four massage therapists, including one who did not speak to The Banner, said it is “empowering” for their clients’ alleged experiences to become public.

“Our clients have been afforded comfort in their experiences being investigated and heard by the public and validation in knowing that they are not alone. While it is only one step forward in the recovery process, it is important and empowering for any survivor of sexual misconduct to tell their story and to have people listen,” the attorneys, Michael Belsky and Catherine Dickinson of Baltimore-based SBWD Law, said in a statement.

Peter O’Neill, a criminal defense lawyer in Glen Burnie, said prosecuting Tucker based on the allegations would be difficult given the amount of time elapsed since the alleged behaviors.

While there are no constraints on when felony charges can be filed, O’Neill said the conduct described in The Banner would not rise above the level of misdemeanor assault or a fourth-degree sex offense, both of which have a one-year statute of limitations.

He added that Tucker’s notoriety and wealth present another challenge to any possible legal actions, which are “inherently problematic” because of a lack of witnesses.

Whether Tucker will face any discipline from the Ravens or the NFL in connection with the allegations remains to be seen.

The league’s code of conduct for players states that “even if a case does not rise to the level of criminal charges, players are held to a higher standard and could still face punishment, including suspension.” It also states that players could face punishment for “assault and/or battery, including sexual assault or other sex offenses.”

In 2022, for example, the league suspended Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for 11 games and fined him $5 million after more than 20 women alleged that Watson committed sexual misconduct during massage therapy sessions. Watson denied the allegations and reached confidential settlements with most of his accusers.

The league also has a commissioner’s exempt list, though that typically applies in cases when a player has at least been charged with a crime such as sexual assault. It effectively places the player on paid administrative leave and allows the player to not count against a team’s active roster. Only NFL commissioner Roger Goodell can place a player on the scarcely used list. Those on the exempt list cannot play but are permitted to attend meetings, workouts and receive treatments at the team facility.

In 2014, the Ravens released running back Ray Rice after a video emerged of him punching his future wife in an Atlantic City casino elevator. The league also suspended Rice indefinitely, and though he was later reinstated, he never played in the NFL again. That led Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti to say it would be “pretty safe” to say his franchise would have zero tolerance for domestic violence going forward.

In 2018, however, the Ravens kept cornerback Jimmy Smith after he was suspended four games after the NFL found evidence of “threatening and emotionally abusive behaviors” toward a former girlfriend that “showed a pattern of improper conduct.” Last year, wide receiver Zay Flowers did not face discipline from the NFL after a police investigation into an alleged domestic incident was suspended without any criminal charges.

Baltimore Sun reporters Luke Parker, Jonathan M. Pitts and Brian Wacker contributed to this article.

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