Dez Bryant and Demaryius Thomas have numbers on par with Calvin Johnson through the first three years of their careers, and the NFLPA wants them to get paid as such.
If the two pro bowl wide receivers don’t sign long-term deals with their respective teams by Wednesday’s deadline for franchise players to do so, the NFLPA will move ahead with collusion charges against the Cowboys and Broncos according to ESPN.com.
The union says it has credible information that the Cowboys and Broncos have had conversations about the negotiations of long-term deals for franchise wide receivers Bryant and Thomas, and the CBA grants the union the right to discovery in the case of a credible collusion claim.
According to a source, Cowboys executive vice president/COO Stephen Jones told Bryant during a recent conversation that he’d had a conversation with Broncos GM John Elway about the negotiations, which the union believes would constitute a violation of the CBA’s anti-collusion rules.
Calvin Johnson earns close to $16.2 million per year, as the NFL’s highest-paid wide receiver.