February 13, 2026

Eagles chairmain Jeffrey Lurie, other NFL owners can't be publicly graded by NFL players anymore

The NFL reportedly won its grievance vs. the NFLPA, which can no longer publish team report cards. The Eagles ranked 22nd overall in the 2025 report cards.

By Geoff Mosher
PhillyVoice Staff

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Thanks to Roger Goodell and the NFL winning its grievance against the players' union, owners like Jeffrey Lurie can no longer be publicly graded by the NFLPA.

Jeffrey Lurie and the Eagles organization along with the 31 other NFL teams will no longer be permitted to be publicly evaluated and graded by the league's players and have those results published by the union.

Per ESPN's Adam Schefter, the NFL won its grievance against the NFLPA to stop the players' union from publishing its annual team report cards that come out every February on the union's website.

Sources: The NFL informed all 32 teams today in a memo that it prevailed in its grievance vs. the NFLPA and its “team report cards.” An arbitrator determined that the NFLPA’s conduct violated the CBA and ordered it to stop making public any future report cards. pic.twitter.com/mss5WUQjhF
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) February 13, 2026

In last year's report, which came out just weeks after the Eagles beat the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, the Eagles ranked 22nd overall, a drop from No. 4 after the 2024 season. Voting from league players typically takes place from training camp to November, so the results are often a reflection on how players felt about their respective teams from the prior season.

The Eagles last year graded low in locker room, treatments of families, and team travel but scored very high in food/dining, head coach and training staff. Lurie, the team chairman, received an A in 2025 and B in 2025. They were coming off a major slide at the end of the 2023 season, including a first-round playoff loss, when voting took place.

According to the memorandum sent to all NFL teams shown in Schefter's report, an arbitrator agreed with the NFL's assertion that the union's annual report cards, which started in 2023, violated the Collective Bargaining Agreement because it disparaged the league's clubs and individuals.

The memorandum said the NFLPA ignored repeated requests from the NFL to "provide any information or data related to prior years' surveys" and that, at the hearing, union witnesses and counsel characterized the report cards as "union speech," along with admitting that specific player evaluations that appeared in the report cards were "cherry picked" by union staffers with players having no role in determining which responses would be published.

Also, per the memorandum, the union selected specific anonymous quotes for the report cards to "support its chosen narrative" and decided "the weight to give each topic and the resulting impact on the alphabetical grades it assigned," essentially establishing that the report cards would only serve the union's interest.

The NFL owners will celebrate the arbitrator's decision, but their grievance could end up being a loss in the court of public opinion.

Within minutes of the decision becoming public, some media along with current and former players accused the NFL of avoiding accountability and noted that past report cards had led to some significant changes.

I’ll just say this: The report cards absolutely, positively made a difference in how players working conditions changed. And two of the teams that did really poorly on these—Arizona and New England—are now building entirely new practice facilities. https://t.co/WnYzUo4dAi
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) February 13, 2026

ESPN's NFL Insider Jeremy Fowler wrote that teams had been "put on notice" because of the reports cards:

The team report cards were impactful -- clearly. Put teams on notice about facilities and treatment. And now it stops. https://t.co/nOvxU7OFfz
— Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) February 13, 2026

Saints defensive lineman Cameron Jordan blamed the NFL for being "upset" by the report card findings:

The NFL is upset that Teams have been graded, judged and coerced to update to facilities, training staffs, weight rooms. Necessities to keep the modern NFL athlete top tier. 🙄 https://t.co/9N0Q7xNauy
— Cam Jordan (@camjordan94) February 13, 2026

J.J. Watt, a five-time All-Pro who played for the Texans and Cardinals, took to social media to note the hypocrisy of NFL players not being allowed to evaluate the league owners and teams.

NFL won’t let actual players grade the workplace they attend every single day, but they’ll allow a 3rd party “grading” service to display their “rankings” of players on national television every Sunday night… https://t.co/JBQXOgFZIN
— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) February 13, 2026

Former NFL offensive lineman Mitchell Schwartz, who played nine seasons for the Chiefs and Browns, agreed that the report cards were influential in holding NFL teams accountable but also blamed the NFLPA for using the report cards to publicly shame NFL teams.

I think the NFLPA report cards were great and forced some major changes from owners who hated looking cheap and bad compared to their peers.

However, I also agree that since the NFLPA was doing it the way they did, that IS disparagement and it shouldn’t continue in that way.
— Mitchell Schwartz (@MitchSchwartz71) February 13, 2026

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