Pro Football

Management and labor spent six hours discussing without resolution the final touches on the NFL’s new labor agreement.

NFL spokesman Joe Browne said that the sides “had made some progress on certain aspects of the settlement. But there continue to be difficult, unsettled issues.”

The agreement, tentatively agreed upon a week ago, would bring free agency to the NFL for the first time, impose the league’s first salary cap, and cut the draft from 12 rounds to seven, with a cap of $2 million for rookie salaries.

Last week, the sides said they expected a final announcement early this week, ending a five-year labor stalemate that has existed since the 1987 strike, which ended without a contract.