The NFL’s gambling policy, by its own terms, applies to current NFL Personnel. It does not encompass former or prospective employees of teams or the league office.
On Sunday, we addressed the potential application of the gambling policy to free agents, players not under contract with any team. The league believes certain players not actually on rosters still fall within the scope of the gambling policy, given the preamble to the Collective Bargaining Agreement — even though the gambling policy isn’t mentioned in the CBA and exists independently of it. And even though there has been no indication that the NFL does anything to educate free agents regarding this policy that supposedly applies to them.
