The Green Bay Packers announced important dates for the team’s offseason workout program.
The dates to circle on the calendar: June 15-17, or the three days of mandatory minicamp. The rest of the offseason workout program is voluntary, but the minicamp is required, and it will provide the first opportunity for Aaron Rodgers to either report to a mandatory team function or sit out.
The Packers will hold a rookie minicamp in mid-May. OTAs begin in late May and extend into June.
Rookie minicamp: May 14-15
OTAs: May 24-25, May 27, June 1-2, June 4, June 7-8, June 10
Minicamp: June 15-17
The program is split up into three phases.
Here’s how the NFL details each phase for 2021:
Phase One (April 19-May 14) has been extended from its customary two-week period to four weeks, with activities limited to strength and conditioning, virtual meetings, and physical rehabilitation only.
Phase Two (May 17-21) has been shortened from three weeks to one week. On-field workouts may include individual player instruction and drills, “perfect play” drills, drills and plays conducted with offensive players lining up across from offensive players and defensive players lining up across from defensive players, with each group permitted to align eleven or fewer players across from eleven or fewer players. Players on one side of the ball may execute a play, but players on the opposite side of the ball may not initiate contact with, or attempt to impede the progress of, players who are running the play. All such drills must be conducted at an acceptable walkthrough pace (i.e. Pro Bowl practice).
Phase Three (May 24-June 18) remains its customary four weeks in length. Beginning in Phase Three, clubs may conduct in-person meetings and classroom instruction subject to COVID-19 testing cadence, tracking, facility access and other protocols. During Phase Three, teams may conduct a total of 10 days of organized team practice activity, or “OTAs”. No live contact is permitted, but 7-on-7, 9-on-7, and 11-on-11 drills are permitted.
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