NFL lays out more rules for the safety of players and staff

The NFL has begun putting out the protocols for game days when the NFL season finally gets going. These changes would also be in effect during the preseason, assuming the NFL chooses to have one.

All these precautions are done to minimize potential transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of these rules might seem trivial and excessive but many players have spoken out about their worries with having games this season.

What do you think about these changes for the season? Is all these necessary but do you feel like the league is taking things too far? Let us know.

NFL teams will be forbidden from postgame interactions within 6 feet of each other and jersey exchanges between players will be prohibited during the 2020 season, sources say.

Another way the NFL will look different in the COVID-19 world.

— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) July 9, 2020

The pre-game screening will be important: Anyone with bench access will be screened before entering the stadium. Anyone who records a temperature at or above 100.4 degrees or may have been exposed "shall not be permitted to enter the Stadium on game day."

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) July 9, 2020

Other game day protocols: Coaches and players won’t be required to wear masks on the sidelines. Everyone else in the bench does have to wear a mask. https://t.co/ovKPcCwaD9

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) July 9, 2020