OT- Ezekiel Elliot suspended 6 games

is the NFL told him not to destroy evidence and apparently he did anyway.  This isn't just for the domestic violence incident.  He also pulled down a woman's top in public exposing her, got ticketed for 100 in a 70, the bar fight incident (not sure if he ended up getting charged or not), and visiting the pot store in Seattle. Continued instances of poor judgement is going to be a concern when you have a personal conduct clause in your contract.

The players agreed to give the NFL the right to suspend players more or less arbitrarily in the collective bargaining agreement. So this is yet another way in which the NFL players' union is terrible at its job.

That said, I think it makes some degree of sense to allow the NFL to suspend players for violent incidents even without a legal conviction. The legal standard of proof for criminal convictions is "beyond a reasonable doubt," so there are going to be a number of cases where it's pretty clear that something sketchy happened, but not clear enough to secure a conviction in court (e.g., the Roethlisberger stuff a few years ago).