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On the fifth day, if both tests were negative, the player will begin daily testing and can enter the facility. But it was comforting nonetheless to observe the Steelers QB performing on a practice field after losing a season to injury and an offseason to the pandemic.

The programs will remain virtual through at least June 12, at which point the league and the union will reevaluate national conditions. That's our focus. The date was March 31, which meant the NFL had months to figure out how to pull it off. The sports world has been on pause since mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic, with league suspended, marquee events like the Masters and Kentucky Derby delayed until the fall, and even the Summer Olympics pushed back to 2021. None, however, have attempted a feat on the scale of the NFL's challenge. "Adam Schefter reports on the likelihood that NFL teams will bring fewer players to training camps this season.Jeremy Fowler polled a panel of more than 50 coaches, execs, scouts and players to come up with How NFL's shortened preseason impacts regular season (1:59)

The date was March 31, which meant the NFL had months to figure out how to pull it off. While the general feeling given the circumstances of the world right now is that some changes will be necessary for football to go on this fall, the season is still far enough away that the league can hold out hope (at least publicly) that by the time the season is set for kickoff in Week 1 we will be past the worst of the pandemic.The NFL can't hold off making a decision forever. Daily testing will continue for two weeks, and would then move to every other day if the positivity rate is below 5%.

brought back most of the core of its Super Bowl-winning team, which portends to another deep playoff run, especially given the uncertainty of the offseason program. All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. The 2020 NFL season will kick off with a rematch of one of the most memorable playoff games from last season. "We're going to be prepared to play as planned, and we're also going to look at alternatives," Goodell said, While the NFL remains steadfast that football will be played this fall, whether or not fans will be in attendance is a slightly more complicated question.Even with some states already opening up after their respective lockdowns, the prospect of every city that hosts an NFL team giving the go-ahead to mass gatherings before the start of the season feels like a stretch. NFL footage © NFL Productions LLC. The NFL Players Association's player representatives approved the owners' changes to the collective bargaining agreement by a 29-3 margin, the union announced Friday. "I think this is important not just for the NFL or for professional sports -- not even for sports at all levels," Sills said at a virtual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.

One anecdotal bit of evidence emerged this week from Atlanta.

Two new eras could kick off in Foxborough in September: the post-Can Arizona threaten to make noise in the best division in the NFL or will the restocked Mike Tomlin knows as well as anyone how resilient Ben Roethlisberger is.