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MAQB: What the NFLPA Should Have Learned From Michael Jordan's Old Contracts (Really)

Veterans are hitting the field now, and that’s where we’ll start this week’s column …

Manny Millan/Sports Illustrated (Jordan); Douglas DeFelice/USA TODAY Sports (Armstead); Brad Mills/USA TODAY Sports (Kerrigan)

• In my morning column, we took you through the latest in the NFL-NFLPA fight over the offseason program, and there was a quote in there where we had union president and Browns center J.C. Tretter explaining how, really, it’s not just now during the nine-week offseason program that players are exposed to risk working out under the NFI rules—it’s the full run of the 29-week offseason.