In a 4:58 a.m. ET response to the email from P.R. executive Liz Allen to all NFLPA staff, with a “cc” to general counsel Tom DePaso and NFLPA president Jalen Reeves-Maybin, Jones raised the question that we later addressed here.

All 32 NFL player reps were on a call last night to discuss the next NFLPA executive director. It’s shaping up to be a two-man race: JC Tretter, who has majority support, and Don Davis. There’s other names, but these are the lead candidates, per sources.

While the grievance decision had not been reported publicly before Thursday, the league says it informed teams at its March league meeting.

In the same week that the ruling emerged in the grievance sparked by the efforts of former NFL Players Association president JC Tretter to suggest that disgruntled players should fake injuries, the NFLPA has exercised its prerogative to discharge the arbitrator who ruled against the union.

For the second time in two years, the union will dive into another election process while simultaneously sorting out what went so wrong with the last one.

An arbiter in February ruled in favor of the NFL in a grievance that the NFL Players Association encouraged running backs to "exaggerate" injuries to increase leverage during contract disputes.

In response to my suggestion that the outcome of the grievance regarding former NFLPA president (and current NFLPA chief strategy officer) JC Tretter's suggestion that disgruntled