In June 2025, sports journalist Pablo Torre claimed that arbitration proceedings from January 2025 revealed that the NFL Management Council had encouraged anticompetitivecollusion among NFL team owners to reduce guaranteed payments in contracts for NFL players, with the arbitrator's report finding that "there is little question that the NFL Management Council, with the blessing of the Commissioner, encouraged the 32 NFL Clubs to reduce guarantees in veterans' contracts at the March 2022 annual owners' meeting."[4]