The New England Patriots are releasing veteran safety Jabrill Peppers, ESPN reported on Friday.

Peppers, 29, signed a three-year, $24 million extension with the team last summer and was named a team captain. He has $4.32 million guaranteed remaining on his deal for this season.

Peppers played in just six games last season due to both injury and time on the commissioner's exempt list after he was the subject of a domestic violence charge. He was acquitted of multiple assault charges in January.

"I had to be quiet for three months," Peppers told reporters outside the courthouse in January in Braintree, Mass. "This was all I could think about. This was the first time in my life where football wasn't the most important thing on my mind. I had to just sit through everybody pouring dirt on my

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