We could see a lot of changes coming in the NFL in the near future, and it doesn’t all have to do with the domestic violence policy that needed to be overhauled following the Ray Rice incident. No, on Tuesday, the NFLPA will tackle another issue that has drawn a lot of media interest, and that’s the drug policy.
On Tuesday, the player reps will get together and vote on a potentially overhauled policy, given all the attention this it has received lately, according to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen who announced it just a short time ago during halftime of the Monday Night Football game between the Lions and the Giants.
NFLPA will have 32 player reps vote Tuesday on a proposed overhauled drug policy after daylong negotiations, per sources.
— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) September 9, 2014
The drug policy in the NFL has been the subject of a lot of criticism lately, especially after the year-long suspension was handed down to the Cleveland Browns’ Josh Gordon for a second failed marijuana test.
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With Gordon, the issue was the fact that he was suspended for the entire year, while former Ravens running back Ray Rice, who was accused of domestic violence was given just two games. As we learned on Monday, that doesn’t matter much anymore given the fact that Rice is now out of the league, but it’s still pretty clear that changes need to be made.
What these specific changes will be remains to be seen. But the player reps will sit down on Tuesday and try to iron all of that out.