No NFL players have been suspended by the league for gambling violations since 2023 as investigations and suspensions “continue to stack up across other professional sports and the college ranks,” according to Jonathan Jones of CBSSPORTS.com.
The NFL “believes there are two major reasons for that.” First, the league, along with the NFLPA, “trimmed some of the fat” on sports gambling restrictions that could be “confusing at times.” The league also enlisted the help of former players “to talk” to the current ones.
NFL Chief Compliance Officer Sabrina Perel said, “We really work with everybody in the industry: the regulators, the operators. And everyone is so laser focused on protecting integrity.” Eighteen former players — including Warrick Dunn, T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Torry Holt, Chad Pennington and Dante Hall — took part in the gambling education process this offseason, the “most ever for the league.”
