NFL denies conspiracy allegations - Dan Graziano, ESPN
The NFL's PR machine went into overdrive in response to the federal suit filed by the NFLPA and Ezekiel Elliott in Plano, Texas.
NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart said Friday morning that it's "unequivocally, absolutely false" that commissioner Roger Goodell was not aware of Kia Wright Roberts' findings in the Ezekiel Elliott investigation before he imposed discipline. "The idea that this was a conspiracy is false," Lockhart said. "The credibility issues were addressed at length in the investigative report. Kia Roberts' points were made very clearly. The 160-page report included a fulsome description of the credibility problems of both Tiffany Thompson and Ezekiel Elliott.