Goodell reduces salary to $0, NFL workers taking pay cuts
Commissioner Roger Goodell has reduced his salary to $0 and other NFL employees will be taking pay cuts or furloughs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Goodell, who makes upward of $30 million a year from salaries and bonuses, voluntarily had his salary reduced this month, a person familiar with the move tells The Associated Press on Wednesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity.
The league is implementing tiered reductions in base salary, beginning with the pay period ending May 22. The reduction will be 5 percent for workers up to the manager’s level, 7 percent for directors, 10 percent for vice presidents, 12 percent for senior vice presidents, and 15 percent for executive vice presidents.
In a memo sent to league office staffers, Goodell also said no employee earning a base salary of less than $100,000 will be affected by these reductions, and no employee’s salary will be reduced below $100,000 by the reductions.
“We hope that business conditions will improve and permit salaries to be returned to their current levels, although we do not know when that will be possible,” Goodell said.
Ex-Jaguars LB Smith charged with sexual activity with minors
Former Jacksonville linebacker Telvin Smith has been arrested on a charge of unlawful sexual activity with certain minors.
Smith, 29, was booked into the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Jail around 5 p.m. Wednesday and was being held on a $50,003 bond.
No details or police report were immediately available. Citing an anonymous law enforcement source, ESPN reported Smith is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl multiple times, both at his home and in his vehicle, last August and September.
Incident report: Deputy drew gun on Chiefs’ Breeland
YORK, S.C. » A York County sheriff’s deputy drew his gun on Kansas City cornerback Bashaud Breeland, who is charged with resisting arrest among other offenses after he was seen smoking marijuana.
According to an incident report, Breeland faces a total of five charges, including resisting arrest and drug possession. He was released on $2,362.50 bond after spending more than nine hours in jail.
Attorneys for Breeland, Bakari Sellers and J. Preston Strom Jr., said they looked “forward to investigating why the level of force was necessary” during the stop.
Cowboys agree with Worley
FRISCO, TEXAS » The Cowboys have agreed to terms with veteran cornerback Daryl Worley on a free agent deal after the team selected two cornerbacks in last week’s NFL draft.
Worley, 25, spent the past two seasons with the Raiders after playing his first two seasons with Carolina. Worley, who has five interceptions and 243 tackles in 56 NFL games, was a third-round pick by the Panthers out of West Virginia in the 2016 draft.