Go ahead and waive Adrian Peterson now, fantasy football owners. He won’t be earning you any points for the rest of 2014.
The National Football League has suspended the embattled Minnesota Vikings running back for the rest of the regular season, approximately two months after he was indicted for child abuse.
The All-Pro running back will not be considered for reinstatement before April 15, 2015, for violating the league’s personal conduct policy, though he is appealing this suspension.
Peterson was indicted in September on a felony charge of injury to a child.
He has admitted to going too far in the discipline of his four-year old son, using a wooden switch over the summer after the child got into a fight with another one of Peterson’s kids.
The star pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of misdemeanor reckless assault earlier this month, avoiding jail time in the process and setting the stage for the NFL’s ruling.
The NFL announced Peterson’s suspension in a lengthy statement, citing “an incident of abusive discipline that he inflicted on his four-year-old son,” with Commissioner Roger Goodell including with this statement a letter he wrote to Peterson. An except from it reads:
We are prepared to put in place a program that can help you to succeed, but no program can succeed without your genuine and continuing engagement. You must commit yourself to your counseling and rehabilitative effort, properly care for your children, and have no further violations of law or league policy.
