Two months after the Super Bowl, George Kittle was stuck at his Nashville, Tennessee, home looking for someone to throw him a football.
In a usual offseason, between OTAs and training camp, the San Francisco 49ers star tight end would train with a quarterback at a local high school, catching at least 100 to 150 balls a day. But this offseason was far from normal. The COVID-19 pandemic shut down access to high school fields, and OTAs were canceled. Now it was on Kittle—and every other NFL player—to find ways to stay sharp as the 2020 regular season approached.