NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell answers questions during a season ticket member fan forum before practice at the Cleveland Browns training camp facility on Aug. 17, 2017. Credit: AP/Tony Dejak
Welcome to football in the age of coronavirus.
While the NFL has been able to adjust many of its offseason elements around the restrictions set in place to contain the pandemic, including virtual versions of everything from the draft to player meetings to league votes on rule changes, the playing of the actual sport cannot occur over computer screens and Zoom calls.
As teams prepare for the start of their training camps in late July, and the eventual planned start of the season in September, the league has issued a set of guidelines that will be implemented to make that return to the sport as safe as possible.