Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson’s appeal of his suspension will be heard Dec. 2 by former NFL executive Harold Henderson, according to a report Friday by Jay Glazer of FOX Sports.

On Tuesday, the NFL suspended Peterson without pay for at least the remainder of the season for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy related to his child-abuse case in Texas. Peterson pleaded no contest to charges for the discipline of his 4-year-old son.

The NFL Players Association appealed Peterson’s suspension Thursday morning, arguing that the league imposed “an entirely new and obfuscated disciplinary process” and applied changes to the personal conduct policy commissioner Roger Goodell imposed Aug. 28, months after the May incident that yielded Peterson’s original felony indictment on a charge of injury to a child.

Glazer reported Friday that the appeal will be heard by Henderson, who typically resolves appeals under the league’s substance-abuse and PED policies.

If the appeal fails, Peterson will not be considered for NFL reinstatement before April 15, 2015. The league gave the 29-year-old former All-Pro detailed protocol for returning to an active role.

Goodell was critical of Peterson in a statement announcing the suspension, saying, “You have shown no meaningful remorse for your conduct.”

Peterson told USA Today on Thursday that he was indeed sorry for harming his son and had shown plenty of remorse.

“Ultimately, I know I’ll have my opportunity to sit down with Roger face to face, and I’ll be able to say a lot of the same things that I’ve said to you,” Peterson told USA Today. “Don’t say that I’m not remorseful, because in my statement (after he turned himself into authorities Sept. 13), I showed that I was remorseful. I regretted everything that took place. I love my child, more than anyone could ever imagine.”

Peterson said he has been seeing a therapist out of Washington, D.C., as well as a pastor near his home outside Houston.

Before Tuesday’s suspension, Peterson was on the commissioner’s exempt list, drawing his full salary. The unpaid suspension would cost him approximately $703,125 per week — a total of $4,218,750 — through the end of the season.

Peterson signed a $100 million contract on Sept. 10, 2011. That deal included $36 million in guaranteed money, which has been paid by the Vikings.

Peterson, a six-time Pro Bowler, has spent all eight seasons of his pro career with the Vikings, who selected him with the seventh overall pick in the 2007 draft.