Kentucky currently has 13 former players in the NFL: Alfonso Smith (Arizona), Corey Peters (Atlanta), Stevie Johnson (Buffalo), Garry Williams (Carolina), Wesley Woodyard (Denver), Randall Cobb & Tim Masthay (Green Bay), Jacob Tamme (Indianapolis), Micah Johnson (Kansas City), Myron Pryor (New England), John Conner (NY Jets), Trevard Lindley (Philadelphia) and Jeremy Jarmon (Washington). And all of them are still waiting on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
A vote was supposed to be taken yesterday at the NFL Player Association meeting, but it didn’t happen. The lockout that began March 11th could still end this week, but that’s not a given. According to ESPN, three items have been agreed to by both sides:
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[*]Enhanced injury protection benefit — In addition to a player’s salary in the season he is injured, the player would get up to $1 million for the first year after the injury and up to $500,000 in the second year.
[*]Players get to stay in the league-sponsored player medical plan for life, if they so choose.
[*]An annual increase in minimum salaries for players — 10 percent increase for rookies, 12 percent for second-year players — and the increases will continue throughout the life of the proposed 10-year CBA. That would mean a 10 percent increase in rookie salary for 2011 over the 2010 salary and then a 10 percent increase for rookies in 2012 salary over the 2011 salary. Approximately 1,000 of the 1,890 NFL players in 2010 were minimum-salary players, according to the league.
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Anybody else ready for some football?
