NFLPA To Host Own Rookie Education Program

(AP) - The NFL Players Association will stage a two-day educational program for rookies at the end of June.

One week after the league canceled its annual rookie symposium because of the owners' lockout of the players, the NFLPA has set up what it calls "The Business of Football, Rookie Edition" for Washington on June 28-29. Every drafted rookie -- all 254 of them -- is invited.

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The forum will cover financial education and planning, proper behavior on and off the field, and other information to prepare rookies for a future in the NFL.

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Because of the lockout, those draftees can have no communication with the teams that selected them in April.

The NFL canceled the rookie symposium because it could not commit to the number of people who needed to attend and lecture the rookies. It was scheduled for June 26 in Canton, Ohio.

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