A former University of Tennessee football player came forward this week to say he witnessed an incident between Peyton Manning and a female trainer 20 years ago, but his presence is not corroborated in hundreds of court documents reviewed by Outside the Lines or by another teammate who has long been identified as having been in the training room.
In a 2002 defamation lawsuit, Tennessee trainer Jamie Naughright accused Manning of pressing his bare buttocks and genitals against her face while she examined his ankle in a training room in 1996. Manning described in the incident in 1996 and again in the 2002 lawsuit as a "mooning," and said he did not make contact.