Ezekiel Elliott suspension: NFLPA chief questions length of investigation

Ezekiel Elliott suspension: NFLPA chief questions length of investigation
DeMaurice Smith
NFLPA director DeMaurice Smith (Getty Images)

Not only will NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith’s team help Ezekiel Elliott appeal his six-game suspension, but the union chief also wants to see the NFL’s investigative process quickened.

Smith, speaking to SI.com’s MMQB, compared the more than year-long investigation — that found “substantive and persuasive” evidence that Elliott physically abused his ex-girlfriend — to the legal and judicial process:

“I do know that the Ezekiel Elliot investigation now has to be over a year old. I know that it resulted in a 165-page report and probably hundreds of thousands of billable hours by league personnel. I just…