The Latest Breaking News from Deshaun Watson

The National Football League might actually be showing signs of positive change after years of shoulder-shrugging and looking the other way when players are caught engaging in lewd or abusive actions, drunken driving or other outrages. Until last week, when it came to holding the line for moral virtue against…

The NFL Players Association has included a detailed list of past misconduct by NFL owners as part of its reply brief to the league’s appeal in Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson’s discipline case, according to Fort Worth Star-Telegram sources.

PITTSBURGH — I still have no idea what retired federal judge Sue L. Robinson was thinking when she recommended such a shamefully short suspension of Deshaun Watson.

The quarterback is suspended for the first six games of the regular season, but he is currently allowed to practice and play leading up to Week 1.

Goodell has appointed the man that helped him write the personal conduct policy and advised the league on the Ezekiel Elliott investigation to hear their appeal of Watson's suspension:

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has designated former New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey to hear the Deshaun Watson appeal.

MIAMI — The NFL’s new system of enforcing its personal conduct policy debuted with the Deshaun Watson case, and if the whole thing seems just a little bit convoluted, well, it isn’t. It is a lot convoluted! Like, almost laugh-out-loud weird — mostly because it was collectively bargained and somehow…

Earlier Thursday, news broke that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell would not handle the league’s appeal of the quarterback’s suspension but rather a designee.

According to reports, it won't be Goodell hearing the appeal. It could be someone from inside the league office or, based on one report, an outsider: