While there have been some necessary and unavoidable alterations to the process, by and large the National Football League has gotten on with business as usual this offseason—and even hammered out a new 11-year Collective Bargaining Agreement along the way. The new league year started on-time. Free agency started on-time. They held the NFL Draft on-time. All of this through social distancing amid a pandemic.
However, we are now past the point at which everything can be done remotely. There is no social distancing in practice on a football field. OTAs should be starting up in a couple of weeks, but we know that’s not going to happen, and probably won’t happen at all.