d to NFL’s landmark initiative in minority hiringRoger Goodell: Rooney ‘one of the finest men in the history of our game’Dan Rooney with Roger Goodell in 2006. The lawsuit also alleges the Giants deleted emails related to the transaction from their accounts. About six weeks after Furtado and de Abreu were killed, Hernandez signed a five-year, $40m contract with the Patriots and went on to play another season before Lloyd was killed. He became the Premier League’s first head of sports science and then their head of elite performance last October.