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NFL Salary Cap & CBA Exam 2025/2026 – 100 Questions Answered | Sports Law | Free Agency, Rookie Contracts, Waivers | NYU Law

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This document provides 100 expertly answered questions covering all core topics from the NFL Salary Cap & Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) Exam for 2025/2026. It is an essential study resource for anyone preparing for the NFLPA Agent Exam or enrolled in law and business courses focused on sports law and professional athlete representation. The material spans across the major components of the NFL’s labor and contract structure as outlined in the CBA, including: Free agency classifications: Exclusive Rights, Restricted, and Unrestricted Free Agents Franchise and Transition Tags, Tender Offers, and Draft Choice Compensation Salary Cap rules, LTBE/NLTBE incentives, Conditional Guarantees, Proration, and Acceleration Rookie contract structures: Year-One Rookie Salary, 25% Rule, Rookie Pools and Allocations Waiver System, Option Bonuses, Minimum Salary Benefit, and Termination Pay Player statuses: Accrued vs. Credited Seasons, Veteran Eligibility, and Designation Protocols This document is ideal for law students, sports management majors, sports business professionals, athlete representation specialists, and aspiring NFL agents. It supports learning in university-level courses such as: Sports Law & Collective Bargaining NFL Contract Negotiation Professional Sports Labor Relations Athlete Agency and Ethics Students from programs like NYU School of Law, Columbia University, University of Florida Sports Law Program, and University of Southern California (USC) Sports Business School will find this document extremely relevant and practical for bridging academic theory with real-world NFL agency practices. Keywords: NFL salary cap, NFLPA exam, sports law, collective bargaining agreement, rookie contracts, free agency types, franchise tag, transition player, LTBE incentives, veteran contracts, salary guarantees, minimum salary benefit, waiver system, player tenders, CBA rules

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Exclusive Rights Player - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Player contract that expires at

time when he has 0-1-2- accrued seasons. Cannot market services to other

clubs, if his old club gives him a minimum salary tender on or before last

day of that league year. If tender is provided player can only re-sign with

his old club (unless tender is withdrawn)


Restricted Free Agent - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Player whose contract expires

when he has earned three (3) Accrued Seasons. If his old club provides

him with a sufficient "Qualifying Offer" on or before the last day of that

League Year, it retains the right to either match an offer the player may get

from another club or to receive draft choice compensation from the club

making the offer. The Qualifying Offer is based on the level of draft choices

the old club wants to receive. For example, the Qualifying Offer to a player

with three (3) Accrued Seasons in 2015 for the Club to receive a second

, round draft choice and the Right of First Refusal in 2015 is $2,356,000. The

Restricted Free Agent only has until about a week before the draft (April

30th in 2015) to generate an offer from another club. If he fails to get an

offer, his exclusive rights revert to the old club unless the Qualifying Offer is

withdrawn.


Unrestricted Free Agent - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A player whose contract expires

when he has earned at least four (4) Accrued Seasons is free to sign with

any other club if he does so by July 22 of the same year. If he does not

sign elsewhere, his exclusive rights revert to his old club after July 22

provided that the old club has given him a written tender by June 1st

offering to re-sign him for an additional year at a ten percent increase in

salary (the "June l Tender"). An Unrestricted Free Agent will be restricted in

signing elsewhere, however, if he is designated a Franchise or Transition

Player.


Franchise Player - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Each club may designate one player

who would otherwise be an Unrestricted Free Agent as a Franchise Player.

The designation must be made within a two-week period beginning on the

twenty-second day preceding the first day of the new League Year and will

end at 4:00 p.m. New York time on the eighth day preceding the first day of

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