IRVING, Texas — The NFL defended its investigation of former Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt, with one of the league's top investigative officials saying Wednesday that the league office did not repeat the mistakes made in the Ray Rice case in 2014.
B. Todd Jones, the NFL's special counsel for conduct, said the league wanted to have a more complete understanding of the case before interviewing Hunt about a February incident in which video showed the former University of Toledo player shoving and kicking a woman in a Cleveland hotel.
Jones also said that the NFL is unlikely to begin paying confidential sources to obtain video such as the one released by TMZ in the Hunt case, contending that such a tactic would be "mercenary" and "opens up a Pandora's box" of unsavory possibilities.