NFLPA Disputes Eric Reid's 'Completely False' Allegations of CBA Revisions

On Monday, free-agent safety Eric Reid said that the collective bargaining agreement had been altered after the players voted to approve it.

On Wednesday, the NFL Players Association responded to those claims, per Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, saying in a memo provided to the league's players that the alterations "reflects no substantive difference whatsoever from what players were told about the proposed CBA and what the players voted to approve."

Reid's attorneys, Ben Meiselas and Ray Genco, wrote in a letter to the NFLPA that there was a discrepancy in the wording of a section outlining ex-players applying for Social Security disability payments. In the CBA ultimately signed off by the players, the "offsets applied only to players who applied after Jan. 1, 2015," per ESPN.

Essentially, the change would keep players who applied for those benefits before Jan. 1, 2015, from receiving them.

The NFLPA clarified the changes made to the CBA in its memo to the players:

"It is correct that the final version of the 456-page CBA includes an additional subparagraph with a cross-reference to a section of the Disability Plan that the parties had inadvertently omitted in an earlier version. The final CBA corrected the omission, as the bargaining parties were required to do based on their agreement that 'if any typographical errors or incorrect cross-references are found in the 2020-2030 Agreement, the parties will act in good faith to correct them' (just as the parties had similarly agreed when finalizing the 2011 CBA). ... This correction did not, however, change what had been agreed to with the NFL, what information had been provided to players, or what players had voted upon."

Reid wants the alteration investigated and a new vote to be held on the CBA by the players.