Seahawks Hearing officer breaks from precedent, buys Sherman’s argument on collection irregularities

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In a departure from past precedent, the NFL’s internal process overturned the four-game suspension of Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman based on alleged discrepancies in the sample-collection process. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, hearing officer Bob Wallace, in what may have been his first appeal hearing (and, from the league’s perspective, possibly his…

Source: ProFootballTalk.com