We all knew this summer—to say nothing of this fall—were not going to be business as usual for the NFL. There are simply too many factors working against that, and teams are already behind on the kind of work they’d otherwise have done in minicamps, rookie and otherwise.
It’s no great surprise, then, that preseason is the next item on the checklist for the NFL, and that preseason as we know it may change quite a bit. According to NFL insider Tom Pelissero, the NFL and NFL Player’s Association are currently figuring out how to proceed, but teams may wind up with just two preseason games in 2020.