The NFL won a grievance suit against the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) on Friday, challenging their creation and publicizing of annual “Team Report Cards.”
While the NFL won its grievance against the NFLPA on Friday to stop the report cards, New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara offered a different solution.
Saints RB Alvin Kamara Suggests an Alternative Report Card
The report cards are a collection of grades from current players on how well they are treated by their current organizations in a number of different aspects surrounding the game.
At face level, Kamara’s idea seems very similar to what the NFLPA was already doing. However, the main difference is that his solution would be entirely done by the players.
“What if the players made one and tweeted it out at the end of every year lol,” Kamara wrote on X.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter posted a screenshot of the memorandum between the NFLPA’s Chief Executives, Club Presidents, and Club Counsel and Larry Ferazani, Sean Casey, and Meghan Carroll regarding the NFLPA Report Card Grievance.
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It stated there were “numerous and significant limitations” in the creation and accuracy of the team report cards over the last three years, and that teams should continue to get feedback from their own players to assess the organization’s strengths and areas for improvement.
The document gave four reasons why there was a problem with how the report cards came together.
- The union reviewed player responses and cherry-picked which topics and responses to include (or not) in the Team Report Cards.
- Players had no role in drafting the commentary included in the Report Cards, which was written entirely by union staffers.
- The union selected which anonymous individual player quotations to include (or exclude entirely) to support its chosen narrative.
- The union determined the weight to give each topic and the resulting impact on the alphabetical grades it assigned.
What if the players made one and tweeted it out at the end of every year lol 😂 https://t.co/tyS0wabJIb
— Alvin Kamara (@A_kamara6) February 13, 2026
In essence, the arbitrator determined the NFLPA was picking and choosing what to use from the player responses to drive the narrative they were going for.
However, the NFLPA’s role is to advocate for NFL players within the league. Sometimes that may mean only using certain responses to push for what they believe is best for the players.
Kamara’s solution is to take the administration above the players out of the report cards entirely.
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Rather than having the NFLPA take all the current player responses and putting them into the report card, the Saints’ star is suggesting all the responses stay with the current players, and that’s where the report cards are created.
The team report cards are important because they are supposed to not only help current players get the best idea of where they can be valued, appreciated, and cared for, but also to hold NFL owners and administration accountable for the working environment and resources that are available to their players.
