NFL chief compliance officer Sabrina Perel has been busy this spring.
As the leader of the NFL's efforts to educate and train the approximately 17,000 players, coaches, team personnel and others about the league's gambling policies, she's in the throes of an annual pilgrimage of sorts.
With training camps opening in less than a month, she's already visited with more than a dozen NFL teams, and leaves them with the same parting message: "You need to follow the policy at all times. … because this truly does impact the entire team."
The reason the NFL has been motivated to get its personnel on the same page was again in the spotlight Thursday when the league suspended four more players for violations of its gambling policy.