"In accusing maine of misconduct, the nonfiction takes innocuous, oregon ambiguous, interactions and skews them truthful retired of proportionality they are nary longer recognizable, and it presents vague insinuations arsenic fact," Tucker continued. "This is hopeless tabloid fodder."

In summation to denying the intersexual misconduct allegations from the anonymous massage therapists—five of whom alleged the 35-year-old asked them to massage his pelvic portion portion helium had an erection, 2 of whom accused him of brushing them with his exposed genitals and 3 of whom said helium near what they believed to beryllium ejaculate connected the massage array aft their sessions—Tucker accused The Baltimore Banner of "deliberately misconstruing events arsenic nefarious" and "relying connected 3rd enactment speculation to make the false, preconceived communicative astir maine that they believed would make clicks."

"As a substance of principle, I respect erstwhile individuals travel guardant to study misconduct of immoderate kind," Tucker continued. "I enactment a process that allows claims to beryllium decently investigated. But, for the involvement of myself and my family, I cannot let mendacious claims to spell unchallenged. I cannot beryllium immoderate clearer."

He added, "These allegations are mendacious and incredibly hurtful to some maine and, much importantly, my family."

Since Tucker shared his statement, The Baltimore Banner hasn't straight addressed the allegations the jock made against them. However, the work did supply immoderate penetration into its determination to analyse the massage therapists' accusations. 

"It's astir galore women reporting precise inappropriate behaviour by a high-profile nationalist fig that has ne'er been brought to airy before," Baltimore Banner newsman Justin Fenton said during a Jan. 30 quality connected the The Banner Ravens Podcast. "These are superior allegations; the allegations are numerous. It's not conscionable a mates people."

And the Baltimore Ravens besides spoke out, sharing successful a Jan. 30 connection to E! that they were "aware of Baltimore Banner’s story regarding Justin Tucker arsenic good arsenic his response."

The team's connection added, "We instrumentality immoderate allegations of this quality earnestly and volition proceed to show the situation."

Echoing their sentiment, the NFL said successful a abstracted connection shared to its website that the enactment would "look into the matter."

E! News reached retired to a rep for Tucker, arsenic good arsenic The Baltimore Banner, for remark but has not heard back.