The coach and general manager is back at NRG Stadium.
According to NFL Network, Houston Texans coach Bill O’Brien is back at team facilities. The Texans are a handful of NFL teams that have allowed coaches to return to their club facilities as the sports world continues to ease into reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the league to close team facilities in late March.
Players are still not allowed at club facilities, unless they are receiving treatment from an injury sustained at the end of the 2019 season. Teams will continue to meet virtually until they get the green light from the NFL.
“We can’t be in a rush,” O’Brien told reporters on April 16. “I think life as we know it is going to change and we can’t be in a rush. We’ll play football at some point. We will definitely play football. When that is, who knows, but we’ll just keep doing what we have to do to stay up with the competition and when they tell us to get ready to play, we’ll try to get ready to play.”
With coaches back in the building, it appears the NFL is getting to be on schedule for a Sept. 10 Opening Night in Kansas City when the Texans take on the Super Bowl champion Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium.