EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Minnesota Vikings defensive tackles Kevin Williams and Pat Williams have rejoined the team, after a day away to attend doping hearings at NFL headquarters.
Both players declined comment on their appeals of a positive test for a weight loss diuretic considered a masking agent for steroids. The meetings in New York lasted several hours. They were accompanied by their agents and attorneys, and owner Zygi Wilf and vice president for operations and legal counsel Kevin Warren.
Angelo Wright, the agent for Pat Williams, says he expects to learn the league's decision the first week in December. The Williamses are facing possible four-game suspensions.
Coach Brad Childress said he didn't have details of what transpired.
"I have no idea. I just know that they had a forum, and it was pretty comprehensive," he said.
Childress said both players were "bright eyed and bushy tailed" on Friday despite the long day before and early-morning return to Minnesota. As far as a distraction to them, or the team, this week?
"You really don't allow it to," Childress said. "You just don't. You deal with the hand that's dealt you."
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press
