GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Jon Runyan Jr. heard the theories -- or conspiracy theories, as they were. For it was the father of the Green Bay Packers left guard who this week handed down the one-game suspension to receiver Mike Evans of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who just happen to be playing his son's team on Sunday.
That's Jon Runyan Sr.'s job as the NFL's vice president of rules and policy administration. It's a position the former player has held since 2016.
"He was just doing his job," Runyan Jr.