It’s finally full speed ahead to football in 2020. The NFL and NFLPA have reportedly agreed to a plan to settle the financial impacts of the coronavirus pandemic as it relates to the league in 2020 and beyond. This agreement paves the way for training camps to begin and sets out requirements for the upcoming regular season.
One of the most important considerations in this negotiation was how to deal with a drop in player salaries as a result of overall revenue lost by the league. After the NFLPA proposed spreading that decrease out evenly over the ten years of the new collective bargaining agreement and the league’s early position seemed to be to have all of it hit in one or two years, the two sides came to a compromise.