NFLPA president JC Tretter says the NFL was close to canceling three games this past weekend in the wake of multiple COVID-19 outbreaks among teams.
Instead the league moved Saturday\'s game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Cleveland Browns to Monday, and rescheduled two Sunday games -- Washington at the Philadelphia Eagles and Seattle Seahawks at Los Angeles Rams -- to Tuesday.
Tretter, the Browns\' starting center, was asked Wednesday about criticism he received from Raiders players for pushing the game to be rescheduled.
\"I think the thing that people didn\'t understand was I was fighting for the same thing for the Browns players as I was for the Raiders players, which was to get paid. ... I don\'t think everybody was fully aware of just how close those games were to being canceled,\" Tretter said. \"And I don\'t think everybody was fully aware that, if canceled, they weren\'t going to get paid. Both teams weren\'t going to get paid.\"