NFL owners’ collusion on the Kyler Murray contract? Nope
The arbitrator’s decision was upheld
All kinds of things are happening in the NFL right now. The draft is right around the corner. Free agency is officially still in play, although the signings are few.
New coaches are getting settled in. Players are on vacation in exotic places like Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Nassau. RELATED: DIVING INTO MURRAY’S SIGNING WITH VIKINGS And NFL owners are being accused of collusion.
Last Friday, a three-person committee upheld an arbitrator’s decision regarding several player contracts, such as Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson, and former Cardinals signalcaller Kyler Murray. These players and their agents were asserting that the NFL owners as a whole had banded together in order to circumvent negotiations on these players’ contracts and had violated the collective bargaining agreement by colluding in contract negotiations. The timetable was right after QB Deshaun Watson was traded from the Houston Texans to the Cleveland Browns with that record, monster contract he signed.
Following the new deal, which guaranteed Watson the entirety of the $230 million deal, the other three quarterbacks had begun their own negotiations and were met with a ton of resistance from their respective teams. All of them wanted fully guaranteed contracts as well, and all three were rebuffed in that respect. The NFL Players’ Association asserted that the owners of the Arizona Cardinals, Baltimore Ravens, and Denver Broncos met and decided to create a unified front.