As expected, the NFL announced Friday night that it was placing Chiefs starting running back Kareem Hunt on the Commissioner Exempt list, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network tweets. 
Hunt will not count against the Chiefs’ 53-man roster but will be paid. He cannot practice, play in or attend games with the team while on this list.
This outcome was a foregone conclusion after a video surfaced Friday of the second-year back pushing a 19-year-old woman and kicking her while she was on the floor in an incident at a Cleveland hotel this past February.
Hunt will stay on the list as the NFL investigates the recently surfaced video and decides on the repercussions. He will miss the week’s game against the Raiders and could miss the remainder of the season and playoffs, depending on the length of the investigation, which will include a review of the information that became public on Friday, Rapoport tweets.
According to Rapoport (Twitter link), neither the NFL, nor the Chiefs, had seen the video until today. The league reportedly made several attempts to acquire the footage but was denied by the hotel, which said corporate policy would only allow it to release the video to law enforcement. The Cleveland Police Department would then not provide it to the league.
The NFL’s statement was a brief one:
The NFL has placed Kareem Hunt of the Kansas City Chiefs on the Commissioner Exempt list, and as a result, he may not practice, play or attend games. The NFL’s investigation, which began immediately following the incident in February, will include a review of the new information that was made public today.
Earlier this week, former 49ers linebacker and recent Redskins signing Reuben Foster was placed on the exempt list after he was arrested for alleged domestic violence, his third arrest in 2018, late last week. Other notable names to be placed on the list include Adrian Peterson in 2014 following child-abuse allegations and Greg Hardy for domestic violence. Peterson missed the rest of the season before returning to the field in 2015 and Hardy’s career was essentially ended.
Bye bye
Stupid stupid stupid
Obviously Kareem Hunt did something criminal and should be punished.
I’m not posting this to see if anyone has sympathy for the man, and I don’t expect anyone to, but I do think it’s curious/suspicious/interesting that TMZ realesed this video today, when this incident is from Frebruary?
The hotel that had the video would not release it until the police did so, and the police refused to do so. TMZ probably paid someone at the police department or the hotel to obtain the video and they couldn’t find someone willing to take that risk until now.
I heard the return address was from a location in Foxboro Massachusetts
Hunt is a low life who should be banned for life, but Mixon and Rice were far worse. I still cannot understand how Mixon achieved and remains employed by the NFL. That is a disgrace.