NFL Players Association medical director Thom Mayer is optimistic the 2020 season will take place.
However, the union and the NFL will know a lot more in late May or early June about whether playing this season is viable.
Mayer discussed the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the NFL during an appearance on Adam Schefter\'s podcast.
The NFLPA has created a COVID-19 brain trust that includes members from Harvard, Duke, Johns Hopkins, the CDC, the White House, the state department and the office of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
\"So OTAs, probably not going to happen. As you know, the clubs are closed for now and will remain closed for a while. But I\'m very optimistic,\" Mayer said. \"You know, you look at somebody like Drew Brees and [wife] Brittany Brees gave five million dollars to New Orleans. And you may have heard Drew the other day say, \'Hang in there, hang tough.\' And that\'s what we have to do. We have to hang in there and hang tough -- but we have to scenario plan for disasters in terms of the way we did it at 9/11.\"
Via ESPN