NFLPA Head Hopes Deal Gets Done to Avert Lockout

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Source: AP

By MICHAEL MAROT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The NFL Players Association doesn't want a lockout. It wants a deal.

On Friday, union executive director DeMaurice Smith and four of the league's most prominent agents put on a unified front at the league's annual scouting combine. The hope is the union and the NFL can agree on a new collective bargaining agreement before the current one expires next week.

If they can't, a lockout could begin next Friday.

"We want a deal and our hope is it will get done as quickly as possible," Smith said before entering the afternoon session of a daylong meeting with player agents.

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