Pablo Torre: [Richard Sherman] was sick of how JC Tretter was pushing candidates like Llloyd Howell. According to a source familiar with Sherman’s thinking “Lloyd Howell was treated like a project...

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Original Title: Pablo Torre: [Richard Sherman] was sick of how JC Tretter was pushing candidates like Llloyd Howell. According to a source familiar with Sherman’s thinking “Lloyd Howell was treated like a project boyfriend: ‘We can fix him’.”

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I wound up finding an executive committee member from 2023 that did not feel the same way as JC Tretter and Austin Ekeler [regarding Lloyd Howell]: Richard Sherman, the superstar cornerback of the Seattle Seahawks who served on the Executive Committee for almost 10 years at this point in time.

He did more than disagree, actually. Richard Sherman, I am told, actually pulled the parachute cord and stopped participating in JC Tretter’s search process after sitting through 3 rounds of candidates. The reason Richard Sherman left, I am told, was because he was sick of how JC Tretter was pushing candidates like Llloyd Howell. According to a source familiar with Sherman’s thinking “There was a rigid bias against internal union candidates, and candidates like Lloyd Howell getting leeway, even though they didn’t seem that prepared and didn’t seem to understand how the relationship between the NFL and the NFLPA works. Lloyd Howell was treated like a project boyfriend: ‘We can fix him’.”