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Report: NFL training camps will start on time

By Zac Wassink | Last updated Jul 24, 2020 3:32 PM ET

Football fans have new reason to hope the 2020 NFL season will begin on time amid the coronavirus pandemic.

On Friday, the NFL Players Association voted to recommend proposed changes to the collective bargaining agreement for a campaign unlike any other.

A statement following our Executive Committee meeting: pic.twitter.com/pSkq369jeh
— NFLPA (@NFLPA) July 24, 2020

NFL Network's Ian Rapoport tweeted that the deal is "done and final" and that training camps, which have opened to Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans rookies, will begin on time.

Based on the NFL call today — that was entirely supportive — and the NFLPA EC recommendation… if the NFLPA reps vote it in today, the deal is done and final.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) July 24, 2020

Out of the NFL meeting today, via sources: Training camp will start on time.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) July 24, 2020

Training camp sessions open to all players on July 28.

Earlier this week, the NFL and NFLPA agreed to daily coronavirus testing through the first couple of weeks of camps. The NFLPA has also informed union members that all preseason games are canceled to avoid potential exposure to individuals who may be carrying the coronavirus.

Zac Wassink

Zac Wassink is a longtime sports news writer and PFWA member who began his career in 2006 and has had his work featured on Yardbarker, MSN, Yahoo Sports and Bleacher Report. He is also a football and futbol aficionado who is probably yelling about Tottenham Hotspur at the moment and who chanted for Matt Harvey to start the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field. You can find him on X at @ZacWassink

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