(Reuters) - Retired quarterback Peyton Manning and four other players named in an Al Jazeera America report that linked them to performance-enhancing drugs will soon meet with the NFL, according to a report on the NFL's website on Thursday. Manning, who was the most prominent of the names mentioned in the December report, and four active players will meet with league officials "sometime next month," NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart was quoted as saying in the report. Manning, who helped the Denver Broncos win a Super Bowl in February and retired a month later, has denied accusations made in the documentary that he took human growth hormone while recovering from neck surgery in 2011.
