If DeMaurice Smith wants to keep his job as head of the NFLPA in August, he’ll have to withstand a challenge from civil rights lawyer Cyrus Mehri.
Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk reported that on Tuesday’s airing of REAL Sports with Bryant Gumbel (airing Tuesday at 11 p.m. Eastern) will include Mehri announcing his candidacy. The last CBA is one of the primary things causing Mehri to run.
“The players went backwards economically in a massive way, and that’s hundreds of millions of dollars that were forfeited and De Smith gave the commissioner a blank check,” Mehri said on the show, per Williams. “‘Dear Commissioner, you can do whatever you want on player discipline.’ Well, we’re gonna fix that.”
Mehri has been involved in prominent cases against the likes of Coca-Cola, Texaco and Wells Fargo. Perhaps his most notable contribution in the NFL was advocating for the Rooney Rule, which was adopted in 2002.