Elliott ‘granted’ to play after judge grants order
Panthers’ David fined
NEW YORK, Nov 4, (Agencies): A federal appeals in New York granted an administrative stay against Ezekiel Elliott’s six-game suspension on Friday, freeing the Dallas Cowboy running back to play this weekend in the latest twist to the star’s legal back-andforth.
The ruling by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals was granted following a request on Elliott’s behalf by the NFL Players Association.
It means Elliott can now play on Sunday in the Cowboys game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Elliott has been embroiled in a legal saga with the NFL after being issued a sixgame suspension following a 13-month investigation into a domestic violence allegation in 2016.
Although Elliott faced no criminal charges from the case, the NFL probe found him to have been in breach of the league’s personal conduct policy.
Elliott has bitterly contested the ban and so far has successfully fought to delay the activation of the suspension, playing in all seven of the Cowboys’ regular season games in 2017.
A court ruling last week said the suspension would begin this weekend, but Friday’s decision puts the case back on hold.
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Carolina Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis has been fined $48,620 by the NFL for his hit Sunday on Tampa Bay wide receiver Adam Humphries.
Davis, the league’s Walter Payton Man of the Year in 2014, posted on Instagram that he was unhappy with the fine and insisted the hit was legal. He was penalized for unnecessary roughness on the play, which was deemed a helmetto-helmet hit.
Hall of Famer and former Miami Dolphins linebacker Nick Buoniconti said he will donate his brain to further the study of concussions after his death.
Buoniconti, the defensive leader of the Dolphins’ undefeated 1972 Super Bowl championship team, has elected to donate his brain to the Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy team at Boston University and the Concussion Legacy Foundation.
In May, Buoniconti, 76, went public in a Sports Illustrated article that he suffers from memory loss among other ailments stemming from his 14-year pro football career.
A number of NFL owners will be asked to turn over communications records related to the Colin Kaepernick collusion case against the league.
A league source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Houston Texans owner Bob McNair, among others, will be deposed and asked to turn over all cellphone records and emails in relation to the collusion case brought by the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback.
The Los Angeles Rams placed safety Cody Davis on injured reserve due to a lingering thigh injury.
Davis, 28, has not practiced since he suffered the injury during the Week Six victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Oct 15.