The process started in June. Every scenario was laid out — good, bad or otherwise — and the skeletons of one NFL team’s scouting plans for the 2020 college football season started to formulate.
“Having direct supervision of all area scouts, I knew I needed to have a plan for them in place before any decisions were made [on whether there would be college football],” one NFC college scouting director told Yahoo Sports.
Scrambling for the 2020 NFL draft after the COVID-19 pandemic first hit was a big enough hurdle for teams this spring.