A general view of an official NFL game ball with a San Francisco 49ers logo (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)
The 49ers and the rest of the NFL won’t have to play at least half their preseason games in 2020, according to a report from Pro Football Talk.
It took COVID-19 to convince the NFL the San Francisco 49ers and the 31 other teams across the league that the preseason didn’t need to be its full four-game length.
Instead of talk, however, the global pandemic has ultimately forced the NFL to consider shortening these exhibition games, which included chopping the Hall of Fame game and now cutting the standard four preseason bouts down to two.