Alex Reimer Contributor. The current CBA provides that the players' share of revenue average at least 47% of all league revenue over the 10-year life of the deal. New NFL CBA Would Be Ultimate Win For Fans. But just as with anything, the majority rules. The players' vote to approve the new CBA ensures NFL labor peace through at least 2030 and will allow the league to expand its regular season from 16 to 17 games as early as 2021. Before the voting, the NFLPA estimated that roughly 2,500 players were eligible to vote.The league's owners voted in February to approve the deal, so the players' approval was all that remained in order to secure it.Commissioner Roger Goodell also issued a statement, saying: "We are pleased that the players have voted to ratify the proposed new CBA, which will provide substantial benefits to all current and retired players, increase jobs, ensure continued progress on player safety, and give our fans more and better football. Players have largely opposed the expansion because it represents another week in which they will put their bodies at risk.One sticking point in the negotiations was how players would be paid for this additional game. SportsMoney. "I think that's something we knew, that it would be close," new NFLPA president JC Tretter told ESPN of the close vote. Shortly after midnight that night, the board of player reps voted 17-14 with one abstention to send the deal to the full membership for approval.The next week, attorneys for the players and for the league met in Washington to hammer out the full, 456-page document outlining the new CBA. But shortly before that vote was to take place, the NFLPA executive council surprisingly voted 6-5 to Owners agreed to meet with the players at the scouting combine in Indianapolis on Feb. 25, and during that meeting some minor concessions were made, but the structure of the deal remained the same. Teams could have used both if the league were still operating under the old CBA. ET on Thursday.This past week, the player reps gathered in South Florida for their annual meeting and had a contentious discussion about the new deal, the 17-game season and the manner in which the deal was negotiated.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. "The new CBA will allow the NFL to expand its regular season from 16 to 17 games as early as 2021 and expand the playoff field from 12 teams to 14 as soon as the 2020 season. Panthers offensive tackle Speaking to ESPN, Tretter was asked if he was worried about players such as Okung rebelling now. I write about the … Section 16. Baseball's revenue-sharing system isn't quite as straightforward as others, but MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told The New York Times in 2018 that players had received "approximately 50 percent of revenue" in recent years.The new CBA significantly relaxes the rules on drug testing with regards to marijuana by narrowing the window for testing (from four months to two weeks at the start of training camp) and reducing the number of players who are subjected to testing. NHL players receive at least 50%. The deal would increase the players' share of league revenue from 47% to 48% in 2021 and to at least 48.5% in any season in which 17 regular-season games are played.Now that a CBA has been agreed to, teams are not allowed to use both the franchise tag and transition tag this offseason.

It is here that the NFLPA takes some of its most significant criticism over the 2011 deal because the main top-line success of the owners' lockout strategy was to reduce the players' share from where it was in the 2006 deal. Under this deal, practice squads could soon increase to as many as 14 players per team, each making $10,500 per week — an increase of $2,500.This was not technically a bargaining issue, but it has become wrapped up in the deal: Starting as early as next season, the playoff field will expand from six teams per conference to seven, with only the top seed in each conference earning a bye week.Under this format, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Los Angeles Rams each would have made the playoffs last season and faced the Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers in the opening round, respectively. Overall player costs, which also counts benefits and the performance-based pay pool, per club are $242.9 million.NFLPA executive committee member Lorenzo Alexander weighs in on the pros and cons of the new CBA.After the owners voted Feb. 20 to approve the terms of the deal they'd been negotiating with players since April 2019, the union's board of player representatives was scheduled to vote via conference call the next day.