How will NFLPA under Lloyd Howell approach eventual 18-game negotiation? ‘Can’t just be a food fight every single issue’

NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell spoke out after Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles four plays into his residency with a team competing on an artificial surface.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell publicly floated a shift from the league’s collectively bargained schedule to two preseason and 18 regular-season games.

Howell was not afraid to call the league to task on a workplace issue even as the season was only a week old .

The union is asking its membership to rank the issues they care most about this season .

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell 's draft comments indicate league wants to negotiate with an 18th game.

The NFL can opt out of several media rights deals following the 2028-29 season , two people with knowledge of the contract.

Howell is exploring whether NFL compensation could expand beyond an all-cash model.

Howell has met with Goodell “multiple times talking about a variety of issues,” he said.

Howell wonders whether players who “create value in this league that has been going through the roof” could increase their compensation through more creative means.