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Sources: NFLPA to vote on 17-game season in new CBA

In a critical step that may change the NFL landscape for at least the next 10 years, the NFL Players Association will convene again after Super Bowl LIV to conditionally vote up or down on a 17-game regular season schedule that likely would commence in 2021 as a new collective bargaining agreement is on the brink of make-or-break, according to sources.

All 32 team player representatives, along with the NFLPA executive board, will meet at an undisclosed location to review a 10-year labor contract for the second time within a week that, as one source described, the players can either "accept the one thing they hate, a 17-game season, in exchange for 10 or more things they want.