With the National Football League's 2017 season less than two weeks away, millions of people, many of them lawyers, are preparing for fantasy football season.

But in what seems to have become an almost annual tradition, one of the NFL's star players is once again awaiting the outcome of a disciplinary proceeding to see whether or not he can take the field with his teammates. And once again, the lawyers are choosing sides.

Frank Salzano, 42, won't comment on the case against his star client, Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott. Salzano, a former associate at Jones Day and now-defunct Dewey & LeBoeuf, was willing to discuss his journey from corporate litigator to current consigliere to Elliott, who at just 22 is already one of the league's top players.