NFL Requests Arbitration in Brian Flores Lawsuit

The NFL asked a federal court to send Brian Flores’ racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL and six of its teams to arbitration on Tuesday, according to Daniel Kaplan of The Athletic.

The league also requested that Flores’s two co-plaintiffs–former Cardinals coach Steve Wilks and former Titans coach Ray Horton–sever their cases and file separate arbitration claims.

The move by the NFL doesn’t come as a surprise as the league had signaled in a letter to the court in April that it hoped to move the lawsuit behind closed doors. The Dolphins had also reportedly requested to move the lawsuit into private arbitration in early March, just over a month after Flores first filed the lawsuit,…