The Director of the NFLPA Strategy, JC Tretter, resigned from his post and withdrew from the consideration for the position of acting executive director of the NFLPA.
“In the past two days, it has become very, very hard for my family. And that’s something I can’t take care of,” Tretter at CBS Sports told. “So, the short bullets are: I have no interest in being (executive director). I have no interest in being considered; I made the executive committee known. I will also leave the NFLPA in the coming days because I have nothing more to give to the organization.”
Tretter, 34, has been in the role since October 2024. He was the president of player from 2020 to 2024, and would have been a candidate to be active executive director after the resignation of Lloyd Howell on Thursday evening.
Several former NFL players reacted to Tretter’s candidacy with public criticism on social networks.
“We must be the most stupid union of all sports,” said former secondary Will Compton Posted on X. “Ya – votes for the guy who was in charge of the hiring of Lloyd Howell. Votes for the guy who swept a lot of s — Under the carpet when the owners of the NFL were in collusion not to give guaranteed contracts. The NFLPA is constantly exceeded and it is really our own fact”
“They would also be wise to withdraw Tretter,” poster Former player and member of the NFLPA Executive Committee, Ben Watson.
Tretter was the president of the NFLPA players in 2023 when Howell was elected executive director of the union. He presided over a vote that changed the constitution of the NFLPA to make the research process and electoral more confidential. Tretter led the 16 -month -old research process that led to Howell, whose management was in question in recent weeks after the podcast reports “Pablo Torre Discount Out” and ESPN.
In 2022, the NFLPA continued the owners alleging that they were collusion to prevent the guaranteed contracts. In 2023, the NFL continued the union for comments that Tretter suggested that runners who were not satisfied with their contracts could simulate injuries – a violation of the ABC. The two grievances were decided this year, and the two decisions were not publicly shared by the NFL or the NFLPA. ESPN indicated that the NFLPA and the NFL had a confidentiality agreement for the grievance of collusion which hid the information in the 61 -page decision.
In an interview with CBS Sports, Tretter denied having access to collusion or being involved in the agreement compared to the NFLPA with the NFL to keep these confidential conclusions to a group of selected managers.
A source knowing the situation told ESPN that the NFLPA players’ council will meet on Sunday evening to discuss the candidates for an acting director. Don Davis, director of NFLPA players, executive director of the NFLPA Trust Zamir Cobb, and the lawyer general of the NFLPA, Ned Ehrlich, are among the candidates who will be discussed.
The Council of Representatives will also discuss the selection process of the next Executive Director – whether the Executive Committee directs this process or the acting director.
