NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks ahead of the first round at the NFL football draft, Thursday, April 25, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Credit: AP/Steve Helber
The NFL will hold an entirely “virtual draft” on April 23-25, as commissioner Roger Goodell informed clubs Monday that all team and league personnel will observe current “stay-at-home” orders affecting most of the nation’s residents because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Clubs have been advised to prepare to conduct the 2020 Draft entirely outside of their facilities in a fully virtual format, with club personnel in separate locations and able to communicate with one another and Draft head quarterbacks by phone or internet,” according to the memo, a copy of which was obtained by Newsday.