Kareem Jackson has an audience with the commissioner, Mike Klis of 9 News in Denver reports.

The Broncos’ veteran safety – one game into a four-game suspension for what the NFL says has said is repeated unnecessarily hard hits to the opponent’s head area – set up the meeting himself with commissioner Roger Goodell.

Jackson will fly from Denver to New York on Wednesday night and meet with Goodell at 10 a.m. Thursday at NFL headquarters in New York.

“I contacted him directly,’’ Jackson said. “Hopefully, I get some clarity, and I can explain that things that I’m doing aren’t out of the ordinary things and I shouldn’t be in this situation.’’

About 15 years ago, Broncos’ receiver Brandon Marshall and linebacker D.J. Williams met separately with Goodell in New York on personal conduct issues. The word coming out of those meetings is that once the friendly small talk was finished and it’s time to get down to business, Goodell was stern while stating the league’s position.

“We’ll see,’’ Jackson said in a phone interview Wednesday morning with 9NEWS. “I honestly don’t know, I have no clue what will come out of it. It’s about trying to figure out why I’m the only person in this situation or being punished to the extent I’m being punished.

“I see the same hits all around the league, and guys aren’t being flagged or fined and definitely not suspended, so I want to know what they think that I’m doing that they think is so egregious and these other guys aren’t seen in the same light,” Jackson said.

Jackson was asked whether his style of tackling – despite his relatively small, 5-foot-10, 183 pound frame, he uncoils his body to sometimes deliver punishing hits – makes his hits seem especially more vicious.

“I get what you’re saying, but they can’t tell me that because of how you uncoil or because you’re smaller the way it’s delivered that it’s seen in this light as opposed to another guy who may be bigger,’’ Jackson said. “It’s the same stuff. You can look at every game, and this same stuff is happening that are being slipped under a rug and going about the game.’’

Jackson has been disciplined for six unnecessary roughness violations this season resulting in four fines worth $89,670 and suspended twice for a total of six games without pay. In all, that’s $927,997 in lost wages. Now consider roughly 50% of his $2.515 million salary is deducted from taxes and benefits.

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