The hot new trend among star NFL players is an NBA-style effort to get themselves out of bad situations and into better ones. It started with a trickle. Le'Veon Bell sat out the whole 2018 season. Antonio Brown did all he could to force a trade out of Pittsburgh. Heck, for a minute there you could convince yourself it was just a Pittsburgh Steelers thing.
But not anymore. Not now that Dee Ford, Frank Clark and Jadeveon Clowney all got traded from teams that gave them the franchise tag.