Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott officially had his appeal denied by arbitrator Harold Henderson, which means we are headed headlong into another full-blown court case involving a star NFL player. Elliott was previously suspended six games by the NFL in mid-August for a domestic violence incident from 2016.
And in his letter to all the parties involved, obtained by CBS Sports Radio and WFAN legal analyst Amy Dash, Henderson claimed that commissioner Roger Goodell followed the process for imposing judgment "step by step."
Henderson noted that Elliott's team claimed there was new evidence, but it was not his job "to conduct a de novo review of the case and second guess" Goodell's decision.