The Packers’ Aaron Rodgers celebrates as he walks off the field after winning a playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks on Jan. 12 in Green Bay, Wis. Rodgers is a team representative who tweeted that he cast a no vote for the NFL labor agreement. (AP file photo)

If the process is at first-and-goal now, though, there’s still work to be done to get into the end zone.

With a late-night vote, on the slim majority approval of the 32 team representatives, the NFL Players Association was preparing Wednesday to send the current CBA proposal to the full union membership for potential ratification. There was no immediate word on how quickly that decisive vote would be conducted.

Last week, the owners flashed their thumbs up with a majority-vote approval of the agreement that’s a product of 10 months of negotiations with a 17-game regular season the most significant change.

“There will be white smoke when there is white smoke,” NFLPA President Eric Winston told reporters in Indianapolis during the NFL scouting combine. “The one thing we’re not doing is rushing though this thing. Every ‘I’ will be dotted, every ‘T’ will be crossed, and when that happens, that happens.”

The Packers' Aaron Rodgers speaks after a game against the Washington Redskins on Dec. 8 in Green Bay, Wis. The Packers won 20-15. (AP file photo)

The NFLPA’s 11-member executive board initially voted down the proposal last week by a slim majority, an indication of mixed feelings within the ranks that count more than 2,000 players. Though a simple majority of votes cast among the membership is the only requirement for ratification, plenty of players have spoken in opposition to the current proposal.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, one of the team reps, revealed on Twitter that he cast one of the votes against. The 17-game season needs to come with more workplace and workload concessions to players, he said.

“Although I do see that there are many things in the proposal that improve the lives and care for past, present and future NFL players, there are issues with others,” Rodgers wrote on his verified account.