As the World Cup winds down ahead of Sunday’s final, NFL players are taking to social media to express their desire to play on the type of natural grass fields the tournament used throughout the summer.Players across the league this week attached the hashtag “WorthTheCost” to social media messages asking why grass fields were used in World Cup games played in NFL stadiums. Among the players who posted the hashtag on Friday: Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Patrick Queen and New York Jets defensive lineman Harrison Phillips. Numerous other players added additional comments in their messages.“If stadiums can make grass work for the World Cup, they can make it work for NFL players,” multiple NFL players posted on X. “We’re #WorthTheCost.”When reached by The Athletic, the NFL Players Association pointed back to a statement the union put out in mid-June as the World Cup was set to begin.“The temporary installation of natural grass fields for the World Cup is a choice by certain NFL team owners to do for soccer players what they refuse to do for NFL players,” the NFLPA said in a statement on June 10. “It’s no longer a question of capability: the technology exists, the expertise exists and the resources exist to install the high-level grass fields that our players overwhelmingly prefer.“We have seen the meaningful investments made to meet the standard for international athletes and global events. NFL players — who regularly compete on these fields, help fund these stadiums, and whose work makes the league what it is today — deserve the same commitment to quality grass fields.”As part of the statement, the NFLPA shared a poll it conducted with the union’s player members. According to the union, 92 percent of those polled — over 1,700 players, according to NFLPA executive director JC Tretter — preferred to play on natural grass while 6 percent said they don’t have a preference. Only 2 percent of players polled said they prefer synthetic turf.