(05-20-2024, 03:43 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(05-20-2024, 02:18 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: The current CBA is in place till 2031.

Any changes made to it (prior top then)  are more likely to come from the league/ownership and not from player concerns.

I don't see any way RBs are going to gain ground on their devaluation unless fewer quality backs begin coming out of the NCAA. Which is doubtful.

There is no likely no help on the way for NFL RB salary concerns.

It's unlikely but not impossible.  If enough RBs decide to hold out, especially rookie RBs, there would be a negotiation at that point.  But the other position groups would not want that.  They'd understand that opening the book for one position could open the book for all of them.

But it does highlight the basic injustice of any union contract: folks already in the workplace are negotiating and voting on behalf of folks who aren't yet in the workplace.

You think a bunch of 5th, 6th, 7th round RBs are going to join a holdout when they have a golden opportunity to start right away in the NFL instead? 

I can't imagine that happening. 

They don't care about the Saquon Barkley's of the league (which are a dying breed anyway - zero 1st round RBs taken this year BTW) 
They care about making a 53 man roster.

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