NFLPA Statement on Ruling on Temporary Restraining Order in Ezekiel Elliott Case

For Immediate Release
September 8, 2017

NFLPA Statement on Ruling on Temporary Restraining Order in Ezekiel Elliott Case

Commissioner discipline will continue to be a distraction from our game for one reason: because NFL owners have refused to collectively bargain a fair and transparent process that exists in other sports. This “imposed” system remains problematic for players and the game, but as the honest and honorable testimony of a few NFL employees recently revealed, it also demonstrates the continued lack of integrity within their own League office.