Key Dates:
Feb. 23 - March 9: Franchise/Transition Player Designation Period
March 8-11: NFL Combine - See Below
March 17: 2021 league year begins
April 5: Start of offseason workouts for teams with new head coaches
April 19: Start of offseason workouts for teams with incumbent coaches
April 23: Last day of restricted free agent signing period
April 28: Last day to match offer sheets for RFAs
April 29 - May 1: 2021 NFL Draft - Cleveland Ohio
August 5: Hall of Fame Game
September 9: NFL Kickoff Game - Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida
February 8th or 13th 2022: Super Bowl LVI - SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California
NFL Combine (Current status)
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The major change is that there will be no in-person workouts held at the Combine this year. Instead, any workouts will take place during individual pro days on college campuses. The league stated in the memo that they will work with the schools to encourage consistency "in testing and drills across pro days and ensure that all clubs have access to video from those workouts, irrespective of whether the club is represented at a particular workout."
They are also working to obtain medical information about all the prospects who would ordinarily be invited to the Combine, which will include testing done at medical facilities near the prospect is currently residing. In special cases, there will be in-person follow-up examinations that likely occur in early April. Under those circumstances, each club will be allowed to send one physician and one athletic trainer to conduct those in-person exams, which will likely occur over a two or three-day period.
As for team interviews with prospects, those will be done virtually instead of in-person.