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Notes: NFL may consider more Saturday games in 2020

We already knew that the league intended to release a 2020 season plan next week, but a new wrinkle in its COVID-19 adjustment options has emerged. According to Andrew Marchand at the New York Post, the league may consider adding more Saturday games if there is no college football season played. Marchand points out in his article that there are more constraints on college football than professional football that may set up such a scenario:

The college game has more uncontrollable variables than the NFL starting with the fact that the players aren’t true professionals.