What about rookie mini camps?

What about rookie mini camp?BEREA, OH - MAY 13, 2017: Defensive end Myles Garrett #95 of the Cleveland Browns takes part in a tackling drill during a rookie mini camp practice on May 13, 2017 at the Cleveland Browns training facility in Berea, Ohio. 17-05136945 2017 Nick Cammett/Diamond Images/Getty Images

Posted By: County Sports Network April 26, 2020

What about rookie mini camps?

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Other than offseason strength and conditioning sessions, which began only recently, NFL teams haven’t needed to have their players on site yet since the 2019 season ended.

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In that respect, then, this coronavirus pandemic hasn’t really set the league back. The NFL has pretty much been able to move on, on schedule.

But that will change now – dramatically so — with the fact that the rookie mini camp, which is held the weekend after the NFL Draft by almost every team, including the Browns, will not happen. There will be nothing going on at Browns Headquarters in Berea next Friday through Sunday.

So, the NFL will join Major League Baseball, the NBA and NHL with their players in their homes and not on the field. Pardon the pun, but this levels the playing field, for this brings everything in the NFL to a virtual – real and imagined — screeching halt.

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Oh, sure, the NFL will begin doing virtual learning with their players, but it remains to be seen how effective that will be. Interviewing draft prospects over the phone and conducting the draft virtually is fine. The NFL made it work – and then some – and for that the league is to be congratulated. It was an incredible, unbelievable show.

But there is a definite ceiling to virtually learning the playbook. You learn by doing, so players have to get onto the field to really digest the playbook and concepts.

People in and around the league have been wondering for a while now how all this virtual learning will work, and if it will work out.

The NFL is in a nebulous state right now, with the start of any work on the field, let alone the start of training camp, the preseason or the regular season, completely up in the air. There are a lot of guesses – opinions, projections, predictions and fall-back plans – being thrown around now. Some sound good in theory, while others seem kind of silly from a practical sense.

Again, this is where the other sports are at right now, with no real clear path to a return to any kind of normalcy.

It’s perplexing, to say the least.

But at the same time very, very, very interesting.

Perhaps we’ll have to go back and watch reruns of the draft. We’ve seen reruns of all the old games already.

What about rookie mini camps was written by Steve King

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