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NFL Draft Shows the League Is Still Clueless About Domestic Violence

Day 3 news, notes and observations about the draft

1. The NFL's Disturbing New Normal

If you want to understand just how far—or little—the NFL has traveled when it comes to the draft and accusations of violence against women, we need to go back in time, to the year 1996, and a woman named Myra Kraft.

At the time, Myra, who died in 2011, was married to Patriots owner Robert Kraft. The Patriots had drafted defensive tackle Christian Peter, who had been accused of sexual assault—just one of a long list of offenses for which he had been arrested or charged.