Star quarterback Aaron Rodgers won’t be representing Green Bay Packers in NFL Players Association anymore. Rodgers decided to step down from his role earlier this week, saying he is unhappy with the way the process of adopting the new Collective Bargaining Agreement went down in February.
Rodgers was one of the 14 team representatives who were against recommending the CBA proposal from NFL owners to players. The proposition, however, managed to go through with a narrow margin and the NFLPA ended up adopting it after a positive vote by its members in March.
“I wasn’t real, real happy about the way things went down,” Rodgers told ESPN on Wednesday when asked to detail the reasons for his decision.
According to Rodgers, he didn’t like the fact that active players didn’t get involved in the negotiating process and that the CBA proposal was recommended without an overwhelming majority of votes.
“I think it’s time for somebody else to take that role who wants to spend a week of their life sitting in meetings and going through all that,” he added. “To me, it’s just not what I want to do at this point in my career.”
Kicker Mason Crosby will succeed Rodgers as Green Bay Packers’ NFLPA representative.
The new CBA runs through the 2023 NFL season and brings some major changes, including adding the 17th regular-season game and expanded playoffs. It also expands the active roster from 53 to 55 players and increases the practice squad limit from 10 to 12 through the 2021 season and 14 players starting 2022.
