The National Football League says its decision...

The National Football League says its decision to permanently ban fullback Stanley Wilson of the Cincinnati Bengals doesn’t mean it has closed its investigation of Wilson’s drug relapse.

NFL spokesman Joe Browne said the league still wants to hear Wilson’s version of what happened on Jan. 21, when he allegedly had a drug relapse on the eve of Cincinnati’s appearance in Super Bowl XXIII.

Earlier this month, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle informed Wilson that he was permanently banned from NFL play.

Browne said that because the investigation is still open does not mean the NFL is checking into the purported involvement of other Bengal players in Wilson’s relapse. Wilson reportedly intends to implicate as many as five of his teammates in an article scheduled for the September edition of Penthouse magazine.