If Kirk Herbstreit is right about NFL 2020 season, can LA Rams handle it?

Emerging in 2021 stronger than ever?

Meanwhile, the Rams will theoretically have a combined 2020 and 2021 NFL Draft class to work within the same NFL season. That means the teams that stockpiled 2020 NFL Draft picks won’t have the same advantage. The Rams will have plenty of draft picks over the course of both years, despite facing a 2021 NFL Draft with just four picks.

How will the NFL handle 2020 one-year deals? How will the NFL calculate awarding compensatory picks in the 2021 NFL Draft with no 2020 season?  Will the league calculate a new salary cap for 2021, or will the league merely push the 2020 salary cap ahead one year? Will the NFL implement a 17 game season in 2021 if no season is played in 2020?

Right now, any delay to the NFL season comes with a host of questions that must be resolved by both team owners and the NFL Players Association.

The goal of getting the 2020 NFL season underway must take a backseat to the overwhelming effort to save lives now. I have to say that Kirk Herbstreit raises a tremendously valid point in the midst of our one-day-at-a-time mindset right now.  After the 2020 NFL Draft is completed, what is the next step for the NFL?

Right now, teams have been directed to close all offices and facilities for the foreseeable future.  That won’t be lifted until the COVID-19 vaccination or cure has been discovered.  That could take a very long time, despite the effort of the world’s most brilliant medical researchers coordinating their efforts to do so.

The 2020 NFL Season may be played this year, and it might not be. But based on the results of the LA Rams offseason moves, and the newly released logo, punting 2020 to the curb may not be such a bad thing after all.