Training camps in the NFL will take place in the team’s own facilities in the run-up to the season due to the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, there will be no joint training sessions with other teams this summer. The league announced this in a memo to all 32 teams.
Training camps, which numerous teams usually hold far away from their own home, have to take place “at home” this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Commissioner Roger Goodell stated this in a letter that ESPN present.
Furthermore, there will be no joint training sessions before preseason games with the respective upcoming opponent, which some teams like to use.
“The NFLPA strongly supports these two decisions to minimize the risk of contagion by eliminating the need for teams to keep two different facilities clean,” Goodell said in that memo. He also stressed that this would also avoid unnecessary travel. “These measures will be taken for the 2020 preseason to take the current situation into account. They will probably not apply to 2021, however.”
Last year, ten teams were preparing for the new season outside their home facilities, including the Oakland Raiders, who held their camp in Napa Valley, California – seen in the HBO-Doku-Serie “Hard Knocks”.
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