Teams show up for training camp, they take physicals, they fill out paperwork, but now there’s another rite of summer.
According to Lindsay Jones of USA Today, teams are also going through domestic violence and sexual assault education programs as the season begins.
The programs are for all players and team employees, a mandatory one-hour session which all teams will complete by the end of September.
There’s obviously more emphasis on it this year after a year which gave us Ray Rice, Greg Hardy and Ray McDonald. This year, the programs goes beyond defining the problems to showing how these crimes impact both victims and perpetrators, their families and teams, according to NFL vice president of wellness and clinical services Dwight Hollier.