James Harrison said in a affidavit provided to the NFL that he has never violated the league's policy on performance-enhancing drugs and also has never met the man who alleged to Al-Jazeera America that he supplied the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker with an illegal substance.
The affidavit, dated July 11, 2016, was included with a letter from Heather M. McPhee, the NFL Players Association's associate general counsel to Adolpho Birch, the NFL's senior vice president of labor policy. A copy of the letter was obtained by ESPN.
The union included the affidavit, along with a transcript of the only references to Harrison in the Al-Jazeera report, to support its position that there is no need for Harrison to agree to an in-person interview with the NFL as the league lacks evidence to support such an interview.