After a yearlong search, the N.F.L. Players Association’s 32 player representatives chose Lloyd Howell as their new executive director, the fifth in the union’s history and a replacement for DeMaurice Smith, whose term ends in 2024.
The selection of Howell, most recently the chief financial officer at the consultant firm Booz Allen Hamilton, comes at the end of an opaque process for filling one of the most powerful jobs in sports.
The search was kept confidential, but several former players, including Matt Schaub and Kellen Winslow Sr., said they had applied and had been rejected by the union’s executive committee, which comprises 11 current and former players.