The woman who accused former BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff of sexual assault says he settled her lawsuit and then stopped paying up. Jane Doe A.G. has asked a judge to intervene, claiming Retzlaff agreed to make two settlement payments but never delivered the second one, according to court filings.
According to FOX 13 News Utah, Retzlaff made his first settlement payment but is now in what the filing describes as a material breach of the agreement after failing to make the second, which was due by July 3. The exact dollar amounts of both payments were redacted from the filings, so the total value of the settlement remains unclear. Retzlaff's attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new filing.
The dispute traces back to a civil lawsuit Jane Doe A.G. filed in Utah's Third Judicial District Court in May 2025, seeking more than $300,000 in damages. She alleged that Retzlaff raped, strangled, and bit her at his Provo apartment in November 2023, according to Gephardt Daily. The lawsuit also included claims that a Provo police officer discouraged her from filing charges, though the Provo Police Department pushed back on that account, stating that an anonymous phone report was made in November 2023 but closed after the caller declined to identify the alleged abuser, per KSL NewsRadio.
From Consent Dispute to Honor Code Fallout
Retzlaff denied all sexual assault allegations in a June 2025 legal response, maintaining the encounter was consensual, but in doing so he admitted to premarital sex that violated BYU's church-administered Honor Code, according to KSL.com. That admission carried real consequences: BYU assigned him a seven-game Honor Code suspension in July 2025, and rather than sit out most of the upcoming season, Retzlaff withdrew from the university, the Atlanta Jewish Times reported.
The original lawsuit was jointly dismissed with prejudice in June 2025, a legal outcome that, under Utah civil procedure, permanently bars Jane Doe A.G. from refiling those same underlying claims against Retzlaff. The dismissal closed the door on the assault allegations themselves, according to KSL.com, meaning the current court fight is strictly about whether Retzlaff broke the financial terms of the confidential settlement he and Jane Doe A.G. reached, not about relitigating the assault claims.
A New Team, A New Chapter
Retzlaff committed to Tulane University in July 2025 as a walk-on quarterback after the school conducted a Title IX background review and cleared him to join the program, according to CBS Sports. The move came after a standout 2024 season at BYU, where he led the Cougars to an 11-2 record and an Alamo Bowl win over Colorado, throwing for 2,947 yards and 20 touchdowns while adding 417 rushing yards and six more scores on the ground, per Pro Football Network.
Retzlaff had also built a national profile as the first Jewish starting quarterback in BYU history, a distinction that helped him land a Name, Image, and Likeness endorsement deal with kosher food brand Manischewitz in 2024, the Atlanta Jewish Times noted. Before arriving at BYU in 2023 as the nation's top-ranked junior college quarterback recruit, he played at Riverside City College in California, where he set a single-game school record with 529 passing yards in 2022, according to Tulane University Athletics.
Hoodline previously covered Retzlaff's 348-yard debut against Southern Illinois and his run to the Valero Alamo Bowl with BYU. No criminal charges were ever filed against Retzlaff in connection with the allegations, and the assault claims themselves remain legally closed following the dismissal with prejudice. What remains before the court now is narrower: whether Retzlaff met the terms of a settlement he agreed to pay.
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