NFLPA Unveils Eight Candidates For Exec Dir, Including Jason Belser

NFLPA President Eric Winston last night announced that eight candidates had qualified for the ballot to challenge NFLPA Exec Dir DeMaurice Smith for the union’s top job. The list includes sports entrepreneur Rob London and NFLPA Senior Dir of Player Services & Development Jason Belser. They join already announced challengers Michigan-based attorney Jim Acho, former NFLers Sean Gilbert and Robert Griffith, former NFLPA counsel Arthur McAfee, former Navy Admiral and NFL P John Stufflebeem and sports and labor lawyer Andrew Smith.

Belser initially was left off the ballot and told THE DAILY last night he was asking why he was not named as an official candidate. Winston tweeted out a list of challengers soon after the deadline to submit nominations, which was 11:59pm ET Thursday. However, he later tweeted, “Correction: Jason Belser is on the ballot. Unfortunate email oversight by me on a crazy last day. My apologies to Jason.”