Open Extended ReactionsThe NFL Players Association late Sunday night elected David White as its interim executive director, 17 days after Lloyd Howell Jr. resigned, the union announced. "I am grateful to the NFLPA's player leadership for entrusting me with the privilege and responsibility to guide their union as interim executive director," White said in a statement. A "thorough search process for a permanent executive director" will begin soon, Reeves-Maybin said. A week before the election of an interim executive director, Bengals center and executive committee member Ted Karras was asked by ESPN what he was looking for in the next executive director, given Howell's resignation. "This is the players' association, and ultimately, we run it, no matter who is in that [executive director] role.