Mike Garafolo of NFL Media reports that the grievance filed by the NFLPA on behalf of Panthers S Eric Reid against the Bengals following his visit with the team has been denied.
According to Garafolo, arbitrator Shyam Das ruled the Bengals were within their rights to ask Reid if he was going to continue kneeling during the national anthem.
The Bengals ultimately passed on signing Reid and took several months for him to eventually catch on with the Panthers.
The NFLPA argued the Bengals based their decision on Reid declining to answer questions about the anthem. With this in mind, the NFLPA considered it to be a precondition of employment that violated the CBA.
As for the pending collusion grievance against the NFL involving Reid and Colin Kaepernick, Garafolo says that this is still pending and is not expected to be heard in the near future.
Reid, 26, is a former first-round pick of the 49ers back in 2013. He played out the final year of his four-year, $8,480,736 contract with the 49ers before signing a one-year contract with the Panthers.
In 2018, Reid has appeared in three games for the Panthers and recorded 16 tackles and no interceptions.
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