Overview

• In February, arbitrator Sidney Moreland found that then-NFLPA president JC Tretter’s podcast remarks improperly urged running backs to feign injuries for contract leverage in violation of the CBA’s Article 2.
• Pro Football Talk and the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast disclosed the ruling on July 17 after it remained confidential since Moreland’s February decision.
• Under Article 43 of the CBA, which allows either party to remove an arbitrator during a July 10–20 window, the NFLPA removed Moreland on Wednesday without public comment.
• The NFL has maintained that it never alleged any individual player faked an injury and informed team executives of the ruling in March to guide enforcement under league protocols.
• Union officials have denied encouraging false injuries, and the dispute has renewed scrutiny of secretive arbitration practices in NFL labor relations.