The NFL Players Association’s annual report cards are working. The best evidence? The NFL hates them.

The league hates them enough that it has, according to Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr. of ESPN.com, filed a grievance regarding the practice .

The NFL contends that the effort violates the Collective Bargaining Agreement. In an August 2025 letter from the league’s Management Council to NFLPA general counsel Tom DePaso, the NFL argued that the union must “use reasonable efforts to curtail public comments by club personnel or players which express criticism of any club, its coach, or its operation and policy.”

The union informed players about the grievance last week, adding that it plans to proceed with this year’s survey.

“We have responded to the grievance with our intention

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