India, May 4 -- As the fallout from the controversy involving Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel continues to ripple across NFL circles, new comments from close friend and longtime broadcaster Jon Weiner have added a new twist. Russini, who spent years as a top reporter at WRC-TV, ESPN and later The Athletic, resigned days after her bombshell photos with the New England Patriots first came out.

The images, reportedly taken at the Ambiente Sedona resort in Arizona, showed the two together in several intimate-looking moments. Neither Russini nor Vrabel publicly confirmed allegations of an affair, but the story rapidly escalated into one of the NFL offseason's biggest controversies.

While Russini has largely remained silent since resigning, We...