NFL honchos have enlisted Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives chief B. Todd Jones to lead a blitz against the league’s bad-boy players, says a source familiar with the hiring.
“Jones is going to be in charge of the NFL’s personal-conduct policy,” the source said.
His work will involve “determining the length of suspensions and handing out fines,” the source said, adding that the job will pay “several million a year.”
“The NFL courted Jones for a while. They went after him, and recently things started heating up. The deal came very fast,” the source said.
Jones, a 57-year-old former Marine, will leave his ATF post in about two weeks, sources said.
He became the ATF’s acting director in 2011 and was confirmed to the post in 2013.
The ATF job had apparently been wearing on Jones.
“He was getting cranky. I think he was over it,” the source said.
The move comes as the NFL remains tarnished over its handling of the Ray Rice scandal last year.
Rice, a former running back for the Baltimore Ravens, prevailed in court against the league’s decision to indefinitely suspend him after video surfaced showing him assaulting his fiancée in an Atlantic City casino.