Talal Ansari of BuzzFeed reports that the NFL has officially opened an investigation after an allegation surfaced that Buccaneers QB Jameis Winston grabbed a female Uber driver’s crotch back in 2016.
The NFL’s special counsel for investigations, Lisa Friel, issued the following letter to the Uber driver on Thursday.
“The League has been informed that you may have been the victim of such a violation perpetrated by Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Jameis Winston. The league takes allegations of this nature very seriously and has opened an investigation into this matter.”
According to Ansari, the female Uber driver, stopped outside of a party in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona to pick up a passenger around 2 a.