NFL CBA Final Exam and All Correct
Answers.
Section 5. Rounding - Answer For the purposes of any amounts to be calculated or used
pursu- ant to this Agreement with respect to Required Tenders, Qualifying Offers, Minimum
Salaries, Minimum Active/Inactive List Salaries, Team Salary, AR, Benefits, Player Costs,
Projected AR, Projected Benefits, Salary, Cash Spending, or Minimum Team Salary, such
amounts shall be rounded to the nearest $1,000.
Section 1. No Strike/Lockout - Answer Except as otherwise provided in Article 47 (Union
Security), Section 6, neither the NFLPA nor any of its members will engage in any strike, work
stoppage, or other concerted action interfering with the operations of the NFL or any Club for
the duration of this Agreement, and no Clubs, either individually or in concert with other Clubs,
will engage in any lockout for the duration of this Agreement. Any claim that a party has
violated this Section 1 will not be subject to the grievance procedure or the arbitration
provisions of this Agreement and the party will have the right to submit such claim directly to
the courts.
Forfeiture of Salary- Training Camp. - Answer If a player commits a Forfeitable Breach
resulting in his absence for six preseason days after the start of training camp, the player may be
required to forfeit up to 15% of his Forfeitable Salary Allocations, and up to an addition- al 1% of
his Forfeitable Salary Allocations for each additional preseason day missed after the six days, up
to a maximum of 25% of his Forfeitable Salary Allocations. A player who misses five days or less
of training camp may not be subject to forfeiture.
Forfeiture of Salary- Regular Season - Answer If the player is not subject to Subsection (ii)
above, and commits a Forfeitable Breach for the first time that League Year during the regular
sea- son, the player may be required to forfeit up to twenty-five percent (25%) of his Forfeitable
Salary Allocations upon missing his first regular season game. If player's Forfeitable Breach
continues beyond four (4) consecutive weeks, then player may be required to forfeit up to his
remaining Forfeitable Salary Allocations on a proportionate weekly basis (i.e., one-seventeenth
for each missed regular season week after the fourth
week).
Forfeiture of Salary- Postseason. - Answer For the period following the Club's last regular
season game through the Club's last postseason game, a player who commits a Forfeitable
Breach during such period may be required to forfeit up to 25% of his Forfeitable Salary Alloca-
tions for that League Year, subject to Subsection (d) below.
College Draft- Number of Choices and Eligibility (a) - Answer The Draft shall consist of seven
rounds, with each round consisting of
the same number of selection choices as there will be Clubs in the NFL the following League
Year, plus a maximum number of additional Compensatory Draft Selections equal to the number
of Clubs then in the League, with such Compensatory Draft Selections reserved for Clubs losing
, certain Unrestricted Free Agents. Each Draft shall be held between February 14 and June 2, on a
date which shall be determined by the Commissioner.
College Draft- Number of Choices and Eligibility (b) - Answer No player shall be permitted to
apply for special eligibility for selection in the Draft, or otherwise be eligible for the Draft, until
three NFL regular seasons have begun and ended following either his graduation from high
school or graduation of the class with which he entered high school, whichever is earlier. For
example, if a player graduated from high school in December 2011, he would not be permitted
to apply for special eligibility, and would not otherwise be eligible for selection, until the 2015
Draft.
College Draft- Number of Choices and Eligibility (c) - Answer If a player who was not eligible
for the Draft in any League Year be- comes eligible after the date of the Draft, he will be eligible
to be selected in a Supplemental Draft, if the League elects to conduct such a Draft, on or before
the sev- enth calendar day prior to the opening of the first training camp that League Year. No
player may elect to bypass a Draft for which he is eligible to apply for selection in a
Supplemental Draft. Any Club that selects a player in a Supplemental Draft must forfeit a choice
in the same round in the next succeeding principal Draft.
College Draft- Number of Choices and Eligibility (d) - Answer No player shall be eligible to be
employed by an NFL Club until he has been eligible for selection in an NFL Draft.
Required Tender: - Answer A Club that drafts a player shall be deemed to have automatically
tendered the player a four-year NFL Player Contract for the Minimum Active/Inactive List Salary
for such League Years.
Signing of Drafted Rookies (a) - Answer A drafted player may accept the Required Tender at
any time up to and
including the Tuesday following the tenth week of the regular season immediately following the
Draft, at 4:00pm New York time. In the event the exclusive negotiating rights to the drafted
player are assigned to another Club through the NFL waiver system, the acquiring Club shall be
deemed to have automatically extended the Required Tender immediately upon the
assignment. If released through waivers, the player shall be treated as an Undrafted Rookie,
with the right to sign an NFL Player Contract with any Club, subject to the provisions of Article 7.
Signing of Drafted Rookies (b) - Answer If a Drafted Rookie has not signed a Player Contract
during the period from the date of such Draft to the thirtieth day prior to the first game of the
regular season
Signing of Drafted Rookies (i) - Answer the Club that drafted the player may not thereafter
trade to another Club either its exclusive negotiating rights to such player or any Player Contract
that it signs with such player for the player's initial League Year; and (ii) the Club that drafted
the player is the only Club with which the player may sign a Player Contract until the day of the
Draft in the subsequent League Year, at which time such player is eligible to be drafted in the
Answers.
Section 5. Rounding - Answer For the purposes of any amounts to be calculated or used
pursu- ant to this Agreement with respect to Required Tenders, Qualifying Offers, Minimum
Salaries, Minimum Active/Inactive List Salaries, Team Salary, AR, Benefits, Player Costs,
Projected AR, Projected Benefits, Salary, Cash Spending, or Minimum Team Salary, such
amounts shall be rounded to the nearest $1,000.
Section 1. No Strike/Lockout - Answer Except as otherwise provided in Article 47 (Union
Security), Section 6, neither the NFLPA nor any of its members will engage in any strike, work
stoppage, or other concerted action interfering with the operations of the NFL or any Club for
the duration of this Agreement, and no Clubs, either individually or in concert with other Clubs,
will engage in any lockout for the duration of this Agreement. Any claim that a party has
violated this Section 1 will not be subject to the grievance procedure or the arbitration
provisions of this Agreement and the party will have the right to submit such claim directly to
the courts.
Forfeiture of Salary- Training Camp. - Answer If a player commits a Forfeitable Breach
resulting in his absence for six preseason days after the start of training camp, the player may be
required to forfeit up to 15% of his Forfeitable Salary Allocations, and up to an addition- al 1% of
his Forfeitable Salary Allocations for each additional preseason day missed after the six days, up
to a maximum of 25% of his Forfeitable Salary Allocations. A player who misses five days or less
of training camp may not be subject to forfeiture.
Forfeiture of Salary- Regular Season - Answer If the player is not subject to Subsection (ii)
above, and commits a Forfeitable Breach for the first time that League Year during the regular
sea- son, the player may be required to forfeit up to twenty-five percent (25%) of his Forfeitable
Salary Allocations upon missing his first regular season game. If player's Forfeitable Breach
continues beyond four (4) consecutive weeks, then player may be required to forfeit up to his
remaining Forfeitable Salary Allocations on a proportionate weekly basis (i.e., one-seventeenth
for each missed regular season week after the fourth
week).
Forfeiture of Salary- Postseason. - Answer For the period following the Club's last regular
season game through the Club's last postseason game, a player who commits a Forfeitable
Breach during such period may be required to forfeit up to 25% of his Forfeitable Salary Alloca-
tions for that League Year, subject to Subsection (d) below.
College Draft- Number of Choices and Eligibility (a) - Answer The Draft shall consist of seven
rounds, with each round consisting of
the same number of selection choices as there will be Clubs in the NFL the following League
Year, plus a maximum number of additional Compensatory Draft Selections equal to the number
of Clubs then in the League, with such Compensatory Draft Selections reserved for Clubs losing
, certain Unrestricted Free Agents. Each Draft shall be held between February 14 and June 2, on a
date which shall be determined by the Commissioner.
College Draft- Number of Choices and Eligibility (b) - Answer No player shall be permitted to
apply for special eligibility for selection in the Draft, or otherwise be eligible for the Draft, until
three NFL regular seasons have begun and ended following either his graduation from high
school or graduation of the class with which he entered high school, whichever is earlier. For
example, if a player graduated from high school in December 2011, he would not be permitted
to apply for special eligibility, and would not otherwise be eligible for selection, until the 2015
Draft.
College Draft- Number of Choices and Eligibility (c) - Answer If a player who was not eligible
for the Draft in any League Year be- comes eligible after the date of the Draft, he will be eligible
to be selected in a Supplemental Draft, if the League elects to conduct such a Draft, on or before
the sev- enth calendar day prior to the opening of the first training camp that League Year. No
player may elect to bypass a Draft for which he is eligible to apply for selection in a
Supplemental Draft. Any Club that selects a player in a Supplemental Draft must forfeit a choice
in the same round in the next succeeding principal Draft.
College Draft- Number of Choices and Eligibility (d) - Answer No player shall be eligible to be
employed by an NFL Club until he has been eligible for selection in an NFL Draft.
Required Tender: - Answer A Club that drafts a player shall be deemed to have automatically
tendered the player a four-year NFL Player Contract for the Minimum Active/Inactive List Salary
for such League Years.
Signing of Drafted Rookies (a) - Answer A drafted player may accept the Required Tender at
any time up to and
including the Tuesday following the tenth week of the regular season immediately following the
Draft, at 4:00pm New York time. In the event the exclusive negotiating rights to the drafted
player are assigned to another Club through the NFL waiver system, the acquiring Club shall be
deemed to have automatically extended the Required Tender immediately upon the
assignment. If released through waivers, the player shall be treated as an Undrafted Rookie,
with the right to sign an NFL Player Contract with any Club, subject to the provisions of Article 7.
Signing of Drafted Rookies (b) - Answer If a Drafted Rookie has not signed a Player Contract
during the period from the date of such Draft to the thirtieth day prior to the first game of the
regular season
Signing of Drafted Rookies (i) - Answer the Club that drafted the player may not thereafter
trade to another Club either its exclusive negotiating rights to such player or any Player Contract
that it signs with such player for the player's initial League Year; and (ii) the Club that drafted
the player is the only Club with which the player may sign a Player Contract until the day of the
Draft in the subsequent League Year, at which time such player is eligible to be drafted in the
