The NFL has brought the hammer down on Ezekiel Elliott. The Cowboys running back is being suspended for six games, sources tell Adam Schefter of ESPN.com (on Twitter). Elliott is expected to appeal the decision and he has three business days to do so. The NFL has since confirmed the ban and NFL.com has obtained a copy of the league’s letter to Elliott detailing the decision.
If the appeal is unsuccessful, Elliott will be out of action through Week 7 since the Cowboys have a Week 6 bye. Elliott therefore would not make his regular season debut until Week 8 against the Redskins on October 29th.
On Friday morning, Schefter cautioned that the personal conduct policy could enable the NFL to suspend Elliott for up to six games. It’s a shocking outcome considering the previous belief that Elliott would only be suspended for one or two games, if suspended at all. All throughout the process, Elliott has maintained his innocence and owner Jerry Jones has insisted that no physical violence took place. The league, apparently, does not agree with that assessment.
“I have reviewed everything, and there is absolutely nothing — not one thing — that had anything to do with domestic violence,” Jones said recently.
Meanwhile, NFL investigators determined that Elliott did use physical force against girlfriend Tiffany Thompson. Although there was “conflicting testimonial evidence” with regards to what transpired, the photographs of her injuries left no doubt about whether Elliott struck her, the league says.
If the suspension is upheld, Elliott will lose out on $8.15MM+ in salary guarantees from the 2017 through 2019 seasons. Elliott will also have to repay the Cowboys a portion of his signing bonus, on top of missing out on six game checks. For Elliott, that means giving up nearly $240K per missed game, which comes out to approximately $1.44MM.
Is Goodell completely insane?!
Loosing Jerry Jones’s support is going to be the straw that breaks the camels back. He’ll be fired within a year
Not likely.
Yeah, sure it will.
Just like losing Kraft’s support killed him, right?
It’s all fun and games until it happens to your team buddy!
He’s fine without bill who was his bestie
Let’s remember they suspended Big Ben also. Domestic violence has no place in the league. Get over it
get over what? that there is no evidence to support her claims yet there IS evidence even from her own friend that she lied and it is all fabricated. also multiple witnesses have stated she threatened to “ruin” his career. im not dallas fan but anyone with any common sense would see the bs in this whole thing. police did not charge bc there is no evidence. now ur telling me the nfl is a better law enforcement agency the law enforcement? it is goodells ploy to abuse his power once again. pacman gets 1 game for his 100000000 arrests, zeke gets 6 for not even being charged. hmmmmm learn before u speak
To be clear, I do not care about Dallas or Zeke at all. I’m just amazed at how badly they’ve been after him for the past 15-16 months and how little actual evidence they ended up with and said “F it punish him anyway.”
DV has no place in the game but I sure as hell want it to be enforced properly and not Roger’s go to excuse when he wants to suspend someone without the evidence he needs to back it up.
Yes, all sports are you hit a woman you should be banned from your sport. There is no excuse for guys making millions to be allowed to do this only for suspensions when the average person would face jail time
There needs to be sufficient evidence before that occurs. There was none in this case. Those pictures of her could have been caused by a number of things.
I’m all for stomping out DV but the case here is dubious at absolute best and it’s for six games which is way higher than other people have gotten for violations that had concrete evidence backing them up.
How FUNNY the NFL found what the Police Dept couldn’t. Goodell your a F$#% JOKE
nfl needs to be boycotted till they fire that idiot Goodell
boycott the nfl till they fire that piece of @hit Goodell
The bar to be guilty is much lower in the NFL, this happens all the time and should be expected.
bahaha F-off cowgirl fans
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Goodell’s lost his last big backer. Gone in a year.
Still not likely.
You don’t publicly humiliate and contradict your most powerful backer and the most powerful owner in the nfl
Goodell makes them money, as long as that is going on he won’t be losing his job any time soon.
Sad but true
Sure he will.
If a made up Witch Hunt to target the leagues best QB that was thoroughly disproved didn’t kill him. This won’t even phase him.
Bring on the non cowboy fan hypocrites that will say their season is done. I thought any RB could succeed behind that line?
Troll much? No one is saying their season is done. Will they be as good? Certainly not, but it’s going to get appealed and reduced to 3-4 games. Definitely not a season ending blow. McFadden and Morris will be more than adequate in picking up the slack for a few weeks.
No trolling here. It’s all over Twitter, and I’ll bet here too in the coming days.
Funny how all these people didn’t care that much about Brady getting suspended over something that may or may not have happened, but once it comes to americas team everyone loses their crap. I’ve been preaching this for the past 2 years Goddell is the worst commissioner in all of sports. I also said when the investigation started he’d get at least a 4 game game suspension no matter what Goddell is too worried about the image of the NFL and not the actual facts
It’s because there’s little to no evidence that Zeke did anything wrong, and because the vast majority of people outside Massachusetts hate the Patriots and would probably be in support of anything against them
He will appeal and get 4 games. Funny that they don’t have enough evidence to press charges legally but commish finds enough to suspend him?????
This commish is a puppet.
I’m a packers fan so I hate the patriots and the cowboys. With Brady there was at least some evidence he knew what was going on. Elliot there was no proof to back up the allegations and two departments investigated with no charges being brought. 6 games is an insane amount. I’m guessing they will appeal and it’ll get cut in half.
With Brady, what proof was there that he knew anything?
What evidence was there with Brady telling us he knew what was going on?
text messages from him to equipment personnel. Add the fact that he “destroyed the phone and hindered the investigation” and it sure looks like he did a pretty good job at covering his ass
There were no text messages from Tom Brady to anybody discussing anything like that. The text messages you’re thinking of are from 2 patriots employees during the off-season. The “deflator” texts.
The destruction of the phone is completely taken out of context as well. All you have to do is read the transcript to see that it was thrown out there by the NFL as a “red herring”.
The text messages you are referring to are between Jim McNally (Locker room attendant) and Jon Jastremski (Equipment assistant). Here is a link that actually provides some of the facts instead of assuming the propaganda that is unsubstantiated.
link to si.com
That’s the thing man, you have no idea what you’re even talking about but you’re talking about it like those are straight “facts”. That’s how the NFL can get away with stuff like that. They put out a whole deluge of false information through outlets like to ESPN and other media Cody’s and people like you just repeat them. Perception becomes reality and the NFL can go on doing whatever they please to whom ever they please depending on what outcome they want.
Fantasy football is in crisis!!!!!
This is str8 BS. But next man up
i think its funny lucky whitehead was falsely accused but your star running back gets the hammer and your all in war mode LMAO!
umm lucky whitehead or zeke…. have a brain
If you simply took the time to look up what happened to Lucky a Whitehead about a month ago, you’d know what he meant. He got accused of a crime and the Cowboys released him before it was reported that the wrong guy got arrested. Maybe you’re the one that needs a brain.
The thing is their standards are much lower than the NFL’s. When Roethlisberger got suspended years ago they basically suspended for putting himself in a situation where something bad could happen. As the Conduct Policy basically says you can’t do any thing to the detriment of the NFL. It is all BS that Goodell made up to give himself more power, that much is obvious. But by the letter of that law Elliot’s suspension isn’t surprising. If anything I’m surprised it wasn’t harsher. Also don’t forget there are still 2 other “incidents” the NFL is investigating in regards to Elliot so don’t be surprised if this suspension gets lengthened or he gets a second one.
This and the comment above too. I don’t know why people seem to think that the standards that apply in a court of law (where you potentially lose all liberty and freedom if you go to jail) should also apply to being suspended at your job.
Yup
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New York Football Giants were going to win the division regardless. Overrated Dak going to have a terrible season. Now ‘Skins will finish behind them.
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The NFL says there are photographs of an abused woman. Jerry Jones there is nothing to point to domestic violence. Which one is lying?
Photographs of an abused woman doesn’t mean Elliot did it. Pretty weak. But, it’s the way of the NFL. Legally guilty doesn’t matter as much as guilty in the court of public opinion.
We are talking about sending a message to the league and the fans that it is not acceptable (actually deplorable) to even think about striking a woman – this is so more important than football!
Let’s not confuse enough evidence for a criminal charge vs a preponderance of the evidence. Many criminal cases are not brought but a civil suit wins. Anyone remember OJ? NFL is instituting a civil penalty not jail time. Two different burden of proofs. Not sure 6 games warranted, but with NFL and Players Union pushing for zero tolerance on domestic violence and previous cases and even video. It comes down to saving face and sending a message to Americans that no one in the NFL is above the policy.
Enjoy football while we have it people. After Fidel Goodell and with all the cheap ass owners not paying players what they deserve, football is going away for a good long while.
Just another push to corporate ticket sales as the common fan loses out seeing one of its rising stars…this certainly doesn’t equate to Rice or Hardy, which HAD actual evidence…6 games is unwarranted!
football aint going anywhere as long as stadiums keep selling out and jersey sells continue to sell players might strike but that wont stop it if a strike goes to long owners will get players that will play for pennies and we will all still give them our money to watch our teams
Where were all these people when Goodell suspended Brady over something that was thoroughly disproven??
That’s right. It’s great when it’s not your team, right?
This is how they get away with this type of stuff.
He made it 6 games to save face when it gets reduced through appeal thats how he works
Couldn’t have said it better.
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