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James Conner: Players Bracing For ‘New Normal’ For NFL Amid Pandemic, Hopes ‘We Can Get Back To It Soon’

We know training camp is going to be different this year. We know football in general may be a little bit different this year. We just don’t know how different it will be yet. Because the league doesn’t know yet. Discussions are ongoing and will be for the next month. And we don’t know what the state of the country will be in at the time football is scheduled to resume.

All the major leagues are in the process of negotiating what the safety parameters will be once players do return to action. The NFL has the furthest to go in that regard, because there is still a month and half before they play even an exhibition game, which may or may not even take place.