Cowboys star Elliott mum on hiatus
FRISCO, TEXAS » Ezekiel Elliott’s Dallas teammates alluded to the happy-go-lucky locker room personality they missed — along with the football skills — during the star running back’s sixgame suspension.
Elliott wasn’t interested in sharing that side of himself, or much of anything else in a 70-second session with reporters that last year’s NFL rushing leader abruptly ended because he didn’t want questions about his time away from the team.
“All right, I’m done,” Elliott said after the fifth such question — why he didn’t want to talk about what he did in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where he spent almost all of the sixgame suspension over domestic violence allegations.
Elliott fought Commissioner Roger Goodell’s decision for two months in federal courts in three states. His legal team won injunctions and other rulings that kept him on the field for eight games before abandoning the case when an appeals court in New York denied an injunction.
Soon after announcing that he was ending the appeal, Elliott went to Mexico. There were photos of him running on a beach, and apparently a planned documentary that has yet to be released. Elliott didn’t want to talk about that either.
“Just watch it,” he said. “Tell me the message you get.”
Elliott’s agents said six weeks ago that the former Ohio State star would release a “personal statement” before his return, but it never happened.