How will the NFL respond to the growing threat of infections from the COVID-19 coronavirus? Unlike other sports leagues like the National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, and Minor League Baseball, its teams and players were not actively playing games before infections began to spread throughout America. But the advent of free agency — and the dozens of flights for meetings and physicals that are integral to it — might be giving the NFL pause.
And New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton anticipates some changes to the league’s offseason calendar, which is set to roll over into its new fiscal year next week.