In many ways, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on America. It has disrupted the economy and thrown sports into uncertainty, but one thing it did not do was disrupt the third annual NFL Quarterback Coaching Summit on Monday and Tuesday.
Given the country’s social unrest, not to mention the sorry state of diversity in the NFL’s leadership levels, neither the league nor its partner, the Black College Football Hall of Fame, could allow the event to be upended. The stakes were too high.
“We hear it all the time, about how nobody’s in the pipeline,” Washington Redskins executive Doug Williams, who co-founded the Black College Football Hall of Fame, said Tuesday afternoon.