{"id":438730,"date":"2023-06-28T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T20:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438730"},"modified":"2023-06-28T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T20:13:09","slug":"lloyd-howell-elected-new-nfl-players-association-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lloyd-howell-elected-new-nfl-players-association-executive-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Howell elected new NFL Players Association executive director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL Players Association announced on Wednesday that Lloyd Howell has been elected as its new executive director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opportunity to represent the players is a privilege,&#8221; Howell said in a statement. &#8220;I look forward to building relationships and the solidarity amongst our players. The history and strength of this institution is impressive, and I look forward to driving our bold goals and achieving them together in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our Board of Player Representatives is pleased to announce that we have elected Lloyd Howell as the newest Executive Director of the NFLPA.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFLPA (@NFLPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLPA\/status\/1674087398408347649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Howell is set to succeed DeMaurice Smith, who has held the title since 2009 and decided that this past term will be his last.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Serving the players has been the experience of a lifetime,&#8221; Smith tweeted Wednesday. &#8220;I want to congratulate Lloyd Howell and wish him well on this incredible journey. I applaud the players for their tremendous work on this process, and I know all of them will lead the union well into the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Howell&#8217;s official start date as executive director will be announced in the coming weeks, per the NFLPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL Players Association announced on Wednesday that Lloyd Howell has been elected as its new executive director. &#8220;The opportunity to represent the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":438731,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17873],"acf":{"announce":"He is set to succeed DeMaurice Smith, who was on that position since 2009","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438730"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438730"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}