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As cities and states along the Northeast start to reopen for business, Yahoo Sports NFL Insider Charles Robinson is reporting that NFL head coaches could start to return to team facilities as early as next week.
Robinson is also reporting that as the proper steps continue to get taken during the Covid-19 pandemic, teams in certain cities could start to gather for mid-June minicamps.
The sources told Yahoo Sports that if coaches resume their in-house work next week, minicamps including players could be scheduled as early as June 15 or as late as June 27, depending on COVID-19 data and whether a handful of franchises get a “go ahead” signal from state governments to resume full operations. Resuming full operations and getting a minicamp scheduled would represent the league’s biggest step to date toward keeping the 2020 NFL season on track for a regularly scheduled fall kickoff.
Robinson is also reporting that California could play a large role in whether teams actually start to gather for minicamps before again returning home to their families until the start of late July or early August training camps.
“If California is open for [team] operations soon, minicamps can still happen in June — probably late June, I’d think — but maybe even mid-June,” the league source said.
Philadelphia and surrounding eastern Pennsylvania counties are scheduled to enter the yellow phase on June 5.
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