Michael McMann talked about the Peyton Manning sexual assault story that resurfaced this month.

McMann, a legal analyst for Sports Illustrated, believes it will hurt Manning more publicly than legally.

“Nothing is going to come of this, there isn’t going to be some new investigation into what happened 20 years ago,” McCann said. “The statue of limitations have expired. It really ended in 2005 when the litigation ended in a settlement.”

Manning allegedly put his genitals on the face of a female Tennessee trainer when he was in college. Manning was sued and then wrote about the incident in his book and was sued again.

“I have to think that there’s a chance that his reputation will be irreparably hurt,” McCann said. “I don’t think he’s going to be seen as villain or anything like that, and he’s going to go to the Hall of Fame. I don’t think it’s going to have that kind of dramatic impact, but this is going to be a cloud over him, and he can’t really talk about it because he signed a non-disclosure agreement as part of the settlement.”

Manning gives a detailed account of his version of the events in his autobiography.

“I can’t believe that Peyton Manning would include this topic in his 2001 book. This scandal had ended by then. There was a settlement between Dr. Naughright and the university. This was over,” said McCann. “It’s baffling to me that he would take an old scandal that was gone and bring it back into the spotlight. He’s lucky that in 2001 this wasn’t a bigger story.”

Added McCann: “It’s interesting that his account in the book was pretty bad. So if that’s his favorable account, we can only imagine that it was worse than that in reality. It’s interesting that the media hasn’t pounced on this until now.”