Rickea Jackson posts 6-word response to viral videos suggesting she was with James Pearce Jr. during NFL Draft

Los Angeles Sparks prima Rickea Jackson seemed to rise immoderate eyebrows during the opening circular of the NFL Draft. 

Videos circulated crossed societal media Thursday nighttime that seemingly showed the 24-year-old WNBA subordinate sitting adjacent to the erstwhile Tennessee shot prima James Pearce Jr. 

Moments aft NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell walked to the draught stage's podium successful Green Bay to denote the Atlanta Falcons were utilizing the 26th wide prime to prime Pearce, cameras switched to the walk rusher's location successful North Carolina.

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Rickea Jackson earlier the personage crippled up of the 2025 NBA All-Star Game astatine Oakland Arena successful Oakland, Calif., Feb. 14, 2025. (Darren Yamashita/Imagn Images)

Jackson appeared to smile, wrapper an limb astir Pearce and hitch his limb arsenic the shot player's household and friends celebrated the peculiar moment.

Rumors astir a romance betwixt Jackson and Pearce person swirled for much than a year. Both athletes attended the University of Tennessee.

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Jackson yet caught upwind of the viral videos and took to X to contented a effect to the chatter. 

"Soooo I person a doppelganger. Wow," she wrote connected X precocious Friday night. 

The station had drawn much than 1.7 cardinal views arsenic of Friday afternoon.

Jackson's effect was met with immoderate skepticism, portion others took announcement of the evident wit successful the Sparks star's message.

James Pearce Jr. of Tennessee participates successful a drill astatine Lucas Oil Stadium Feb. 27, 2025, successful Indianapolis. (Brooke Sutton/Getty Images)

Jackson's NCAA hoops vocation began astatine Mississippi State. She yet transferred to Tennessee, wherever she roseate to stardom during her 2 seasons arsenic a subordinate of the Lady Vols. The Sparks drafted Jackson successful the archetypal circular successful 2024. She averaged 13.4 points per crippled during her rookie WNBA season. 

The Falcons had the NFL's second-lowest sack full past season. Pearce finished his last play with Tennessee with 7½ sacks. 

The signifier during the Atlanta Falcons' prime during the archetypal circular of the 2025 NFL Draft astatine Lambeau Field April 24, 2025, successful Green Bay, Wis. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

But the Falcons gave up important draught superior to get backmost into the archetypal circular Thursday nighttime to prime Pearce. 

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Atlanta sent the Los Angeles Rams second-round and seventh-round picks successful this year's draught and the team's first-round enactment successful 2026. In summation to the rights to the 26th wide pick, the Rams sent their third-round prime this twelvemonth to the Falcons.

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