Ezekiel Elliott Case Study

If Rice was convicted, he would face up to five years in jail rather than a fine. Two months after his incident, Rice was accepted into a pretrial intervention program focused on rehabilitation (Elliott). As a result, Rice’s case never went to trial, and his aggravated assault charge would be dropped if he completed the program. Rice was originally suspended for two games without pay and fined $58,000 because of his aggravated assault charge but then he was suspended for six games due to the NFL’s policy on assault, battery, domestic violence and sexual assault (Elliott). Ray Rice will likely never play another game in an NFL uniform because of the fact that he was caught on camera abusing his wife (Tyler).

Though this NFL conduct is in the light, it is unnecessary because the U.S. criminal justice system has the ability to end the professional sports careers of society’s worst criminals. Everyone asked themselves how could such a successful, talented person throw their opportunity away like this? Crimes from the past always catch up and come to light in the justice system. The NFL from now on is trying to prevent incidents like this from happening from making their off field standards stronger, and making consequences stronger that come with

Though, as the league seems to move forward with concussion polices, there are still hiccups. In particular, one game in the league’s season opener exemplifies it. Carolina Panthers superstar quarterback and reigning Most Valuable Player Cam Newton was illegally hit with multiple helmet-to-helmet collisions. There was no penalties given as he continued the game. After public scrutiny, the league and its player union announced they will each examine the concussion protocol.

During the 2010 season, Brown started all 12 games and only allowed 6.5 sacks with zero holding penalties. However, he was suspended for 4 games and fined $149,294 for substance abuse charges. For the 2011 season, he was named by to the All-Pro second team by the Associated Press and listed on USA Today’s All-Joe Team. He was also voted to play for the 2012 Pro Bowl. During the season, he did not allow a single sack and did not commit any holding penalties.

Quarterback Nick Foles just signed a two-year extension with the St. Louis Rams. The deal is worth $24.5 million, not including the $1.5 million remaining from his rookie contract. Foles still has one-year left on his contract, bringing the terms to three years $26 million. His new deal was completed on the night if August 7th. "I want to be here. I want to focus on my teammates. I want to be all-in, and I don't want to have to worry about contract issues," Foles told the media. He continued,"I am very fortunate to be here. Im fortunate to have a contract. Im very thankful." The quarterback played for the Philadelphia Eagles last year, before he was traded to the Rams on the off-season. In his three seasons with the Eagles, Foles threw for 6,753 yards, 46 touchdowns, and 17 interceptions. Foles has yet to play a game for the Rams, but he apparently has done enough in practice to impress head coach Jeff Fisher. Fisher told reporters that in the short period of time that Foles has been with the team, he has showcased tremendous leadership qualities. "It us what he's done on the field early in his career thus far in the league and what he's done for us since he's got

Under current NFL policy, first-time DUI offenders are subject to a two-game suspension and the marijuana possession likely led to the additional game. Patriots running back LeGarrette Blount was with a member of the Steelers and in Bell’s at the time of the arrest and was suspended one game for his marijuana possession charge.

Jameis Winston left Sundays game with an injury to his throwing arm. Many have speculated that Winston stayed out of the game due to Coach Koetter benching him; That was simply not the case. Coach Koetter confirmed in yesterdays press conference that Jameis told him that he did not feel like he was able to drive the ball due to the shoulder injury.

Arian Foster is one of the best remaining free agents on the market. For years, Foster has dominated the league as one of the best running backs, but after an injury to his Achilles, the Texans released him. With that said, I still believe in the right situation the 29-year old Foster can still be a significant contributor to an NFL team, specifically one these three teams.

After reading this post several times, the author made numerous points on why there should be way more research on how concussions and domestic violence in the NFL can be linked together. There has not been too much research of how the concussions and the domestic violence cases in the NFL can be connected to each other. But throughout the years, the NFL has a history of dodging and ignoring these domestic violence cases with their players. From the league doing this, it throws shade on the NFL and makes them look bad as whole. One other thing that NFL has been ignoring many years is the concussion situation and how it takes a huge toll on the players who suffer from the concussions. Also throughout the post, the author gives examples of cases

Many believe his punishment should have been more severe than a termination. An article about the tragic event states, “Running back Ray Rice was released by the Baltimore Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL on Monday, the same day a shocking video surfaced showing the NFL star knocking out his future wife with a punch in February” (Almasy and Martin). Ray Rice harmed his NFL career by not being courteous of his own fiancée’s life. Rice and Palmer married shortly after the video was exposed on the internet. Putting your hands on others is a sign of disrespect, especially if it is someone that you care about.

The Bears had glaring needs on defense leading up to the 2017 NFL Draft, so it was truly baffling when commissioner Roger Goodell announced quarterback Mitchell Trubisky was headed to Chicago with the second-overall pick.

Alternative solution one, suspending Hardy for five games, was shown to be the least effective option. It received the lowest numbers when I evaluated the effect it would have on each decision criteria. There would be many disadvantages if Richardson chose this solution. For the factor, fans’ responses to the punishment, I rated it a one out of ten. It is evident that Ray Rice’s two-game suspension was seen as too mild of a punishment. If Richardson gave Hardy a five-game suspension, there could be another backlash because of the fans’ responses. This would create an entirely new problem for the NFL, damaging their reputation. The Carolina Panther’s income would also worsen. In Exhibit 3, it is clear that the Panther’s income is extremely dependent on their merchandise, ticket sales and broadcasting. If Hardy is only suspended for five games, the team could lose support from many fans. This would cause their broadcasting, ticket sales and merchandise to decline, which would have a

The New York Times refers to the event on Friday September 4th where two football players from John Jay High School, attacked Robert Watts, the official for the game. Texas is known for their crazed passion for football and it's sad that bad behavior has given it a bad name. The two students have been suspended and could possibly face criminal charges. Along with the players, assistant coach Mack Bree supposedly said that “this guy needs to pay for cheating us” and the two high schoolers did something about it. Bree, as well as the two players involved, are suspended from football and the school. After the incident, the two players made assertions that Watts used racial slurs. In solving the matter the University Interscholastic League is

In 2014 Nick Foles took a "legal" hit from a defensive player for the Washington Football Club, which Peters witnessed and immediately attacked the player for going after his QB. The League ruled Peters to be out of line and ejected him from the game and later received a $10,000 fine, which he

I think the New York Giants should pick Derrick Henry for the NFL draft. Reason one is According to my data Mr.Henry time for the forty yard dash was in 4.54 to 4.56 the shortest time range and my forty yard dash bar graph only two people are in that range and everyone else's time pales in comparison with a mean 4.664 and ten point margin .On my Vertical jump dot plot, Mr.henry was the high extreme with numbers like 37.0 which no one else achieved and compared to the mean of 34.65 and a median of 34.389 Mr.henry did fairly better . On my last set of data which is sixty yards shuttle histogram, there were only two intervals of 11.50-11.53 and Mr.henry was one of the intervals and does much better compared with a mean of 11.709 and a median