ABC’s Good Morning America has released a scathing audio provided by Adrian Peterson that allegedly has former NFL players and current league executive, Troy Vincent, promising Peterson his suspension will only be two games.
At his appeal, Peterson claimed Vincent, the league’s executive vice president of operations, had told him the NFL would consider the months he had sat out with pay while facing child-abuse charges time served.
“It will be two additional games, not time served?” Peterson asks on the Nov. 12 recording.
“No, it won’t,” Vincent corrects him. “The one this weekend. So really, it’s just next week and you … you’re rolling. You’re back.”
Vincent also told Peterson, that the NFL’s new domestic violence policy, announced in August, would not apply to him because his crime took place before it was enacted.
“You are not subject to the new Personal Conduct Policy,” the transcript shows Vincent saying to Peterson, and as such wouldn’t be subject to the mandatory six-game suspension.