RENTON, Wash. — Commissioner Roger Goodell said the NFL is closely watching San Francisco defensive lineman Ray McDonald’s case after the institution of a new policy on domestic violence.

Goodell spoke Wednesday night after attending a youth event the night before Seattle and Green Bay open the season. Goodell said the league is still waiting to get all the facts in McDonald’s case and that any discipline under the new policy would not be applied until the legal system had run its course.