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Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott denied ever being detained by police following an incident outside of a Columbus nightclub on Feb. 17.
"I was never 'detained' by the police," Elliott wrote in a since-deleted tweet, per Matt Lombardo of NJ.com. "Nor was I ever questioned or in any type of trouble."
TMZ originally reported that Elliott had been detained, according to an eyewitness account, but later updated its story, writing: "Ezekiel's rep tells us he spoke with cops about something that happened inside a club he had just left.