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Owners updated on Mueller report

Little has been said about the upcoming Mueller report, except as it turns out, to NFL owners.

At one point during Wednesday's owners meetings in Dallas, New York Giants owner John Mara and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney cleared out all NFL employees and team executives and spent about 10 minutes in an owners-only meeting, updating the 30 other owners about the pending Mueller report as it pertains to the NFL's handling of the Ray Rice domestic violence incident, according to sources.

Neither Mara nor Rooney offered specific details about the investigation. But their message was that former FBI director Robert Mueller III is being thorough, has interviewed every female employee at the NFL office, and is getting closer to releasing the report.

One league source estimated the report would be released "sooner rather than later," but neither Mara nor Rooney provided a specific timeline in their update.

This represented the second time Mara and Rooney -- who are overseeing the report -- have updated NFL owners without the presence of NFL executives, the first coming at a league meeting in October in New York.