10 Scandals That Rocked The NFL

10. Adrian Peterson

Few cases in recent years have come close to shocking the world to the level that the Adrian Peterson case has. Peterson was a model athlete, widely accepted as the best running back currently playing in the NFL and had the reputation of being an all-round good guy.

This all changed in the blink of an eye when he faced accusations that he had been disciplining his infant son by beating him with a switch, (essentially a sanded down cane).

Photographs emerged that showed slash like wounds across the back of his son's body. Peterson did not deny the allegations, instead - immediately owning up to his actions. He stated that he firmly believed that he was just disciplining his son, claiming that this is the way that he himself was raised.

Peterson is currently sitting on the commissioner's exempt list. His fate with the Vikings franchise and the NFL as a whole remains unknown.