While Coaches May Now Report, Players Are Not Expected Until Training Camp

Late last month, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell released a memo outlining a possible window for coaches to return to their team facilities this week. We didn’t hear anything about that again until yesterday, of course, shortly after I published an article about the fact that we had not heard any updates about that plan.

Teams may begin reintegrating coaches into their facilities as of today, and the limit to the number of people they may have in the building at any one time has been raised to 100. But while there was previously some optimism about the potential for players to return by the end of the month, and possibly even conduct a minicamp, that now is no longer expected to happen,…