It has been two years and Seattle Seahawks safety Quandre Diggs is still sore about how his union negotiated its latest labor deal.
In negotiations leading up to the March 2020 expiration of the old collective bargaining agreement, DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the N.F.L. Players Association, publicly opposed a push by team owners to expand the regular season beyond 16 games.
Yet weeks before the deal was set to end, Smith unveiled proposals for a new agreement which sought to extend the N.F.L. season in return for the players getting one more percentage point of the league’s shared revenue, up from 47 percent, annually, and the players could earn an additional one percentage point based on the growth of the league’s media deals.