Utah defensive tackle Jamal Wallace suspended after arrest over intimate-image allegation
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The gist
Utah defensive tackle Jamal Wallace was arrested Oct. 11 on misdemeanor intimate-image distribution counts and suspended indefinitely.
He has not been formally charged, and the rape allegation remains under investigation.
Background
Jamal Wallace is a senior defensive tackle at the University of Utah, a backup who transferred from Tennessee in January and appeared in one game for the Utes, the season opener against Idaho. He was identified in court documents as 25-year-old Jamal Lamar Wallace Moore Jr., a native of Kansas City, Missouri. The case became public after a woman described as his off-and-on dating partner told police he recorded sexually explicit videos on her phone and shared them without her knowledge; Utah said it learned of the situation on Oct. 11 and suspended him the same day.
How it unfolded
- Oct 9, 2026A woman described as Wallace's off-and-on dating partner met him in Salt Lake City to discuss their relationship and alleged he forced her into sex acts, grabbed her phone saying he wanted to change the music, and later found videos of the incident shared with five people on Snapchat.
- Oct 11, 2026Wallace was arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on misdemeanor counts of distribution of an intimate image; Utah placed him on indefinite suspension the same day it learned of the situation.
- Oct 12, 2026Wallace was released from jail on pre-trial bond of $5,000.
- Oct 21, 2026A Utah spokesperson confirmed the indefinite suspension to USA TODAY Sports; as of Wednesday evening Wallace had not been formally charged.
Who’s saying what
- Official
- A Utah athletics spokesperson said the school was made aware of the situation on Oct. 11, placed Wallace on indefinite suspension immediately, takes such matters seriously and has no further comment because it is a pending legal matter.
- Party
- The complainant alleged, per a probable cause affidavit, that Wallace took a video of him raping her with her phone and sent it to five people without her knowledge, and that she felt confused and disgusting when she learned of the videos.
- Caution
- Wallace denied forcible sodomy, rape and distributing the intimate images to police, and said he accessed her Snapchat account to see whom she had been talking to.
Still unverified
The rape and forcible sodomy allegations are under investigation; no charges relate to the rape allegation and Wallace has not been formally charged. Wallace denied the assault and image-distribution allegations.