As the NFL and players union continue to hammer out what essentially amounts to a one-season collective bargaining agreement for 2020, sources on both sides of the negotiating aisle told Yahoo Sports on Wednesday night that two significant hurdles remain to getting football back on track in the coming weeks: A financial agreement on how and when players will share in the burden of inevitable revenue shortfalls and a set of guidelines that would cause individual teams — or the entire league — to be shut down by COVID-19.
For the season to kick off in September, both of those issues have to be resolved.