Training camp offers a hopeful sign that a NFL season actually will ensue, and, potentially, the 49ers' sweet shot at Super Bowl revenge.
Great tests await.
There will be COVID-19 swabs tickling players' noses. Then comes more virtual learning, team-supervised conditioning and, somehow, summertime bonding.
Not until mid-August will the 49ers' Santa Clara training fields again see sweat drip, footballs fly and Jimmy Garoppolo bark a comforting cadence in a full-team practice.
Storylines are plentiful as ever, though, as the 49ers reconvene for training camp after a virtually-driven offseason and a five-month separation from their Levi's Stadium locker room. In this safety-first society, let's start with the topic at the forefront of everyone's lives:
