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NFL bars players from investing in prediction-market operators

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The NFL will not allow its players to take financial stakes in prediction-market operators, spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed. The report says the league has raised concerns about prediction markets’ possible effects on game integrity and their regulatory framework; the policy’s application to the NFL Players Association remains unclear.

The restriction limits NFL players’ potential financial ties to prediction-market operators, while its scope for the players’ union is unresolved.

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Story date26 December 202526 March 2026

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