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DeMaurice Smith, left, executive director of the National Football League Players' Association talks with Bruce Allen, Washington Redskins president, before an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally)
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National Football League Players Association attorney Jeffrey L. Kessler walks out of federal court after presenting oral arguments before a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in St. Louis. The hearing addressed a claim by the NFLPA that the league colluded to set a secret salary cap in 2010 and follows a recent ruling by a federal judge rejecting the union's attempt to reopen a lawsuit that guided league labor matters from 1993 until the new collective bargaining agreement in 2011. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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DeMaurice Smith, foreground center, executive director of the National Football League Players' Association, arrives for labor talks in New York, Friday, July 15, 2011. Significant progress on a major sticking point in the NFL labor impasse — soaring rookie salaries — during marathon talks Thursday raised hopes that a tentative agreement in principle could perhaps come within 24 hours, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and National Football League Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith speak to the media outside of the Ritz-Carlton hotel after addressing players during the NFLPA rookie symposium on Wednesday in Sarasota, Fla. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)