New England Patriots President Jonathan Kraft on Thursday refuted claims published in a Rolling Stone article about the club's former player Aaron Hernandez, and how the team was aware and helped him deal with his off-field problems. 

Kraft spoke out during the team's pregame show on 98.5 The Sports Hub and said the article has at least four inaccuracies.

"Reading the article, there were two, three, four things in particular that I saw that are completely, factually inaccurate," Kraft said, quoted by The Boston Globe. "I don't know the facts around the other pieces of the story, but it really makes me question it."

Among the article's "revelations" that Kraft pointed out to be false was the claim that Hernandez flew to Indianapolis in April 2013 to tell coach Bill Belichick he felt his life was in danger, and that Belichick recommended Hernandez rent a safe house.

"I saw Bill today, and asked, 'Did Aaron ever tell you his life was in danger?' He's like, 'Absolutely not,' " Kraft said. "If a player had told Bill that his life was in danger, Bill would say, 'We're calling [security chief] Mark Briggs, we're calling the authorities.' His response wouldn't be, 'We're going to get a safe house and you're going to lie low.' I know Bill, that's not what he would say." 

Belichick was asked to address the same claims after Thursday's game and immediately replied, "I don't have anything to add," according to the report. 

Kraft also said that Belichick never threatened to cut Hernandez from the team at the end of the 2013 season if he had slipped up one more time, as the article claimed. The president also said that former security officer Frank Mendes was not the team's chief of security, as was portrayed in the story, and that the story was wrong in stating that Hernandez skipped off-season workouts.

Kraft additionally addressed the $82,000 workout bonus that the team is refusing to pay Hernandez, prompting the NFL Players Association to file a grievance against the team earlier in August. Kraft said Hernandez attended 25 of the Patriots' 33 organized team activities between April and June, but that he was required to attend 90 percent (30 out of 33) of the activities Hernandez in order to collect the bonus.

The Rolling Stone article was published online in its entirety on Wednesday. The issue hits newsstands Friday.

SportingNewsNFL.com reported Thursday that The Boston Globe reported on the magazine article about Hernandez by saying it included "sensationalism, hearsay, convenient fact-bending, and even one blatant falsity." Much of the doubt centered on the accounts having to do with Hernandez's connection with the Patriots and the NFL.

The Globe allegedly called out the magazine's "flat-out wrong" claims that Hernandez missed off-season workouts last spring. Also described as exaggerated were the magazine's claims that Belichick's new head of security, Mark Briggs, was partly responsible for the Patriots' inability to stay on top of Hernandez's behavior. 

The Globe report has since been removed from the publication's website.

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