The release of the upcoming season’s schedule is a significant tentpole in every offseason, though that tentpole ordinarily would have happened several weeks earlier than it did this year. The NFL only unveiled the schedule last night, when it typically is released in the middle of April, prior to the NFL Draft.
The reasons for the delay are obvious to everyone who has paid even the slightest attention to the world over the course of the past couple of months. The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown almost all business into uncertainty, and has grounded almost all professional sports indefinitely.