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James Conner: Everyone ‘Excited To See Each Other Back’ After ‘Long Offseason’

While many players will have spent at least some amount of time this offseason getting together with a small group of their teammates in some capacity, no NFL team had the opportunity to come together this year before the start of training camp. Even now, just yesterday marked the first official true practice of the year, with helmets, beyond a simple walkthrough.

Under normal conditions, players would be in and out of the team facility nearly year-round. Rookies and first-year players would have reported for rookie minicamp a couple of weeks after the 2020 NFL Draft, with OTAs and then mandatory minicamp to follow over the course of the next month.