By the time this publishes, or perhaps by the time you read this, there seems to be a good chance that the fluidity of the current situation will have resulted in the story having already changed. At least for the time being, however, the NFL has “no plans” to move the start time on the new league year; yet that could change.
Mike Florio writes for Pro Football Talk that the league is considering a delay, even if there are currently “no plans” for it. The NFL held a long conference call with teams last night, which no doubt discussed this very topic, and according to his sources, they are “contemplating the possibility of announcing on Sunday a delay in the start of free agency”, saying that they want to wait until after the voting on the Collective Bargaining Agreement is done for fear that it would delay that process even further.