SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – If Johnny Manziel wants help, the NFL and its players are ready to step in.
The troubled quarterback simply has to accept it.
“We wish to give Johnny as much support as he is willing to receive, we can’t make anyone do anything,” Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations, said Saturday before the NFL Honors show. “I’ve seen his father make a statement, reach out to the family to make sure the family knows the National Football League, the Cleveland Browns, the players association – everyone’s here to support you, but you have to embrace it.”
Might not be so easy for the 23-year-old star in a tailspin.
Dallas police said Friday night they were launching a criminal investigation into a domestic violence assault complaint filed against Manziel, who was involved in an altercation last weekend during which he allegedly struck his ex-girlfriend, Colleen Crowley, several times.