Next Tuesday Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott will appear before hearing officer Harold Henderson. Elliott will face an unenviable task: convincing the NFL’s former executive vice president for labor relations that his old boss, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, got it wrong in suspending Elliott for six games.
The suspension reflects allegations made by Elliott’s former girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson, who insists that the 22-year-old Elliott beat her on multiple occasions in Columbus, Ohio, during the week of July 16, 2016. Goodell, along with a panel of four experts (former New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey, Hall of Fame member Ken Houston, The Women of Color Network CEO Tonya Lovelace and former U.