Patriots president Jonathan Kraft sounds off on Rolling Stone's report on Aaron Hernandez

“Reading the article, there were two, three, four things in particular that I saw that are completely, factually inaccurate,” Kraft said. “I don’t know the facts around the other pieces of the story, but it really makes me question it.”

“I saw Bill today, and asked, ‘Did Aaron ever tell you his life was in danger?’ He’s like, ‘Absolutely not,’” Kraft said. “If a player had told Bill that his life was in danger, Bill would say, ‘We’re calling (security chief) Mark Briggs, we’re calling the authorities.’ His response wouldn’t be, ‘We’re going to get a safe house and you’re going to lie low.’ I know Bill, that’s not what he would say.”

Kraft said the story was wrong in stating that Hernandez skipped offseason workouts to be in California. In the process, he addressed the $82,000 workout bonus that the team is refusing to pay Hernandez, prompting the NFL Players Association to file a grievance against the team this week. Kraft said Hernandez attended 25 of the Patriots’ 33 organized team activities between April and June, but that the threshold for Hernandez to collect the bonus was 90 percent of practices (30 of 33). “You have to hit 90 percent in our contract, and Aaron didn’t hit 90 percent, in our view,” Kraft said.