In recent years, the NFLPA report cards make for one of the most entertaining parts of the end of the NFL season. The report cards give letter grades to every team in the NFL on a variety of subjects, from quality of locker room to whether child care is offered on gameday, based on anonymous survey answers from players around the league. It serves as both a fascinating glimpse into the life of an NFL player for fans and an open challenge to the owners who oversee every aspect of the report card to improve how the team operates in order to better serve the players.
It would seem the NFL is not a fan of the last aspect. On Thursday, ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham reported the league was taking legal action against the Players Association in an effort to kill the report cards. This is the third time the NFL has asked the union to stop the report cards—once in 2024 and once in June of this year.
