There remain several hurdles still standing that the NFL and the NFLPA would like to resolve before teams beginning opening for training camp, beginning this Saturday for select teams and rolling out to the rest of the league’s organizations, including the Pittsburgh Steelers, on July 28, this coming Tuesday.
Among the issues many players are most concerned about that remain to be addressed is how the league will handle player opt-outs. Yet to be decided is if or when there will be a deadline for players to choose to opt out, who would be eligible to opt out, what the standards for qualifying to opt out would be, how that would affect their contract status, and what sort of compensation would be involved in a player reaching that decision.