Sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter whether NFL players are expected to be allowed to vote for Flag football at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The resolution requires approval by at least 24 of the 32 team owners. The league will then need to negotiate with the NFL Players Association, Olympic officials and national governing bodies to get NFL players to participate.
The resolution on Olympic flag football participation is one of several projects expected to vote this week. Owners will also vote on the Green Bay Packers proposal to ban the controversial Tush Push Play and the Detroit Lions’ proposal to resume playoff teams based on regular season records, but sources told Schefter that those votes would not be expected until Wednesday.
Although the fate of Tush's push and playoffs remained uncertain as of Tuesday morning, a source told Schefter that the resolution to get involved in Olympic flag football "should be easy".
The Flag Football Resolution established rules and basic structures of how the NFL wants to see the process, but negotiated with the NFLPA and Olympic-related entities. They include:
•Enter the trials under the permission of any player on the NFL contract
• Limits for each national team to participate in one player per NFL team
•In addition, the team designated international players are allowed to play for his home country
• Purchase a league-wide insurance policy to provide injury protection for any player injured while participating in an authorized flag-foot event related to the Olympics
•Salary limit credit for any injured player
• Expect Olympic Flag Football Team to build medical staff and on-site surfaces that meet NFL minimum standards
• Schedule “The league and club commitments with NFL players will not irrationally conflict”.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and other major league officials supported the Olympics at the latest conference in Palm Beach, Florida last month.
The Los Angeles Summer Olympics is scheduled to be held from July 14, 2028 to July 30, 2028. NFL players are usually shutting down for most of this period. In the worst case, flag football participants miss the start of the training camp.
ESPN's Kevin Seifert and the Associated Press contributed to the report.