While in New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX this past February, NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell Jr. celebrated the union’s communication with members under his watch. However, less than a month earlier, he worked with the league office to keep players in the dark over an explosive collusion decision. On Wednesday, ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. and Kalyn Kahler wrote about findings from an NFL collusion hearing held in July and August 2024 that were first reported two weeks ago by Pablo Torre on the “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast. Van Natta and Kahler wrote that on Jan. 14, an arbitrator found “there wasn’t sufficient evidence of collusion by owners,” while also noting “that the NFLPA showed ‘by a clear preponderance of the evidence’ that commissioner Roger Goodell and the league’s general counsel Jeff Pash had urged owners to restrict guaranteed money in player contracts.” Despite those findings (or, better yet, because of them), Lloyd and other senior NFLPA leaders agreed to a confidentialit
