NFLPA Reviewing Browns Rookies' Recent Bus Trip, Length Of OTAs

The NFLPA is "looking into the Browns rookies' voluntary bus trip to Hartford, Conn., last week and also the length of time players are spending at the team's facility for a voluntary minicamp or OTA day," according to Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER. NFL sources last week said that the Browns rookies and their agents "ranged from baffled to upset that they were asked to take a 10-hour bus trip to Hartford to participate in coach Eric Mangini's charity football camp for under-resourced children." NFLPA Dir of Communications Carl Francis in an e-mail said, "We are in the process of reviewing the matter." However, NFL Senior VP/PR Greg Aiello said, "There are no issues we can identify. The bus trip was voluntary and some of them aren't even employees yet because they're not signed. As for long [OTA] days, we have no information about that" (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 6/5).