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Report: NFL Planning on April Draft Despite GM's Recommendation, Clubs Closing Facilities

The NFL is currently planning on holding the 2020 draft between April 23–25 despite a unanimous recommendation from the league's general manager subcommittee to commissioner Roger Goodell that it should be delayed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

On Tuesday evening, Goodell sent a memo to its clubs alerting them that all club facilities will remained closed to all personnel, with limited exceptions.

And per Schefter, GMs are "concerned" that there "won't be enough time for player physicals, gathering psychological testing, getting further verified information about the players" and that some teams might potentially have to conduct the draft from home.