N.F.L.’s Union Files Complaint to Agent

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/sports/ncaafootball/06auburn.html?_r=1

By PETE THAMEL
Published: November 5, 2010

The N.F.L. players union Friday issued a disciplinary complaint to the N.F.L. agent Ian Greengross for the reported actions of his associate Kenny Rogers.

The National Football League Players Association said in an e-mail that its action had nothing to do with Rogers’s apparent involvement in the recruitment of Cameron Newton, the star Auburn quarterback and a front-runner for the Heisman Trophy.

John Bond, a former Mississippi State quarterback, said in a statement on Thursday that Rogers, his former teammate, wanted a “specified payment” to secure Newton’s services for Mississippi State.

The union’s committee on agent regulation and discipline issued the complaint to Greengross for “violating numerous provisions of the N.F.L.P.A.’s Agent Regulations.”

The union said that Rogers was alleged to have “misrepresented to prospective player-clients that he was an N.F.L.P.A. employee, a club official and an official from a testing service in an effort to recruit them.”

The complaint also said that Rogers attempted to recruit players who were signed to other agent contracts, which is in violation of the union’s rules. Some of those allegations were reported in an article by ESPNChicago.com in September.

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