Adrian Peterson is still fighting to be reinstated into the league. It looks bleak that he will play this season but even next season is in jeopardy as well.
via ProFootballTalk:
If hearing officer Harold Henderson upholds Adrian Peterson’s suspension, which initially was supposed to cover the final six games of the 2014 regular season, the suspension could still cover a total of six games.
Chris Mortensen of ESPN reports, citing unnamed league sources, that a decision this week by Henderson to affirm the suspension could result in Peterson missing the last three games of 2014 without pay — and the first three games of 2015 without pay.
It feels like an effort to squeeze Peterson into accepting whatever the league is offering, possibly a suspension through the rest of the year with reinstatement after the season ends. But it would be an unfair outcome; Peterson already has missed 11 games and counting. He has missed three (as of today) since being suspended without pay.
Adrian Peterson reached a plea agreement in his child abuse case that he believed would allow for his reinstatement into the NFL. Instead commissioner Roger Goodell decided to suspend Peterson without pay for the rest of this season. That decision is what Peterson is currently appealing.
