The NFL is “comfortable” that it has properly addressed the $10,000 bet made between Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels and New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers over rookie of the year honors after they underwent “multiple education training sessions” on the sport’s gambling policy, a senior league official said Thursday.

Daniels and Nabers aren’t the only NFL players receiving enhanced education on sports betting. The league has made in-person training on its gambling policy mandatory for all players this season, the NFL said.

The NFL, in discussions with the NFL Players Association, modified the gambling policy last year amid a series of suspensions for violations. That put the topic in focus as the NFL and other professional sports leagues deal with the issues associated with the increasing number of states legalizing sports betting.

Daniels and Nabers, former college teammates at LSU, drew attention in May when they said that they’d wagered $10,000 on which would be named the NFL’s offensive rookie of the year. Nabers revealed the bet on a podcast after both players were chosen within the top six picks of the draft in April. Daniels confirmed it during a podcast appearance in May.

The NFL quickly intervened, although the league had not commented publicly on the matter until Thursday.

“They rescinded that bet,” Jeff Miller, the NFL’s executive vice president of communications, public affairs and policy, said in a video news conference. “The league addressed the matter directly with the NFL Players Association, with the two teams and with the two players to ensure that they understood the policy. They received multiple education training sessions since that time. And … as a result of all the work that went into it, I think we’re comfortable with the resolution.”

League representatives conducted training on sports betting with players at teams’ facilities during offseason minicamps and training camps this summer.

“We learned from last year, when in-person education was optional, the benefits of presenting in person, including increased engagement and awareness [and] the opportunity for players to ask questions,” said Sabrina Perel, the NFL’s chief compliance officer.

The league updated its training content and utilized some prominent former NFL players as presenters, Perel said.

According to Miller, more than 17,000 players, coaches, team and league staffers and other personnel undergo the NFL’s training on its gambling policy. That includes referees and other game officials.

“The world has changed dramatically as it related to sports betting,” Miller said. “And it’s incumbent on us to maintain the integrity of our game against those new challenges that have come up the last few years.”

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said during Super Bowl week in Las Vegas that in addition to the disciplinary measures imposed upon players under the gambling policy, the league had taken action against approximately 25 team or league employees. That included suspensions and in some cases firings, Goodell said then.

“Those deterrent effects are hopefully having a positive impact over the course of the years on legalized sports betting whether it be players, coaches or staff here,” Miller said Thursday. “And the discipline has been severe but needed because of the importance of this issue to us and the integrity of the game overall.”

The NFL revised the penalties associated with its gambling policy as part of a Sept. 29 communication to teams, players and the NFLPA. Under the modified policy, any player who bets on an NFL game receives an indefinite suspension of at least one year — increased to at least two years if the player bets on any games involving his own team. Any “actual or attempted game fixing” by a player results in permanent banishment from the NFL, under the revised policy.

The revisions decreased the penalty for players found to have bet legally on other sports while in an NFL workplace. In that case, the modified policy reduced the suspension for a first-time offender to two games without pay, down from six games before the modifications. A second offense results in a six-game suspension under the revised policy, and a third offense produces a suspension of at least one year.

Perel said Thursday that she does not “see any changes coming for this year” to the policy.

Cathy Lanier, the NFL’s chief security officer, said the league uses a variety of methods to monitor compliance with the policy. That includes partnerships with third-party monitoring services; collaboration with sports betting partners; work by analysts in its command center; and the efforts of integrity representatives, typically retired FBI agents or executive-level police officers, who are assigned to each NFL team.

According to Lanier, the NFL also has observed an increase in “aggressive threats directed at our players, our coaches and our officials” by members of the public, some of which are “driven by sports betting losses.” Lanier said the NFL’s security staff takes such threats “very seriously” and now has the ability to impose a leaguewide ban on offenders, in addition to working with law enforcement agencies on potential criminal implications.

The NFL renewed its partnership with the National Council on Problem Gambling with a three-year grant worth $6.4 million.