The NFL has instituted a phased out plan that allows team employees to return to headquarters today. However, players and coaches are not eligible to join them. NFL Players Mark Trumbo Jersey A sociation president J.C. Tretter -- a center for the -- made it clear the players union has not yet agreed to any plan to return to team facilities."Players: our union has not agreed to any reopening plan. Any reports about coming back to work are hypothetical. You will hear from the NFLPA when there are new developments," Tretter .The NFL announced that all team headquarters would be closed beginning on March 25. The recent proclamation that certain employees would be permitted to return is the first step towards a return to normalcy. However, during a conference call with local media on May 19, Tretter said that the return of players was "still a ways out.""I think it is still a ways out," he continued. "Every place has not opened up quite yet. Obviously, the buildings are just starting to open up for non-football staff. I do not think we are there at this point. I think we continually just keep looking at what new information comes out. In the end, Andrew Cashner Jersey we just have to make good decisions and safe decisions ... Now, as new areas open up and more people leave quarantine, we will be able to see what is going on and we will get more data points for that. We have the, I gue s what you could call an advantage of we still have time before our season is projected to start. A lot of the other leagues are trying to figure this out right now and trying to piece it together, and we still have time. I would not say we are at the point where we Kevin Gausman Jersey need to make an agreement. We are going to keep sitting back and making sure we make the right decisions for our players." Tretter's tweet comes on the heels of a suggesting NFL coaches might return to team facilities next week with minicamps to potentially follow in June. And while it's true the NFL conducted free agency and the draft as scheduled, minicamps -- or any semblance of live football practice -- may not return until later in June or a July.This hasn't stopped related parties from organizing ways to make the game safer for whenever players do return to the field. Oakley has been developing face mask technology that would .The level of interaction between Keegan Akin Jersey players in an NFL game is closer than golf, tennis, or other more widely distanced sports."This is a contact disease and we play a contact sport. The way this thing pa ses along is through contact, and that is what we do for a living. The way we interact with each other at the facility, at practice, weight lifting and at the meal room, it is us shoulder-to-shoulder standing by each other and pa sing things around. There is a long list of ideas we need to come up with to make this environment safe for us. That is why there is going to be a lot of thinking involved in it. That is why we have conversations and calls, and we are looking at it every day. That is kind of the i sue we are facing is this is a contact disease and we play a contact sport," Tretter said.When a return is finally agreed upon, it will be with the understanding that while risks can be mitigated, they can not be entirely extinguished."There is a level of risk of everything. You are facing a level of risk right now going to the grocery store. There is always going to be a level of exposure that people Chance Sisco Jersey are going to face in this. I don't think we will ever get to a point where there is no risk of exposure," the lineman said. "Our job is to get that to as close to zero as po sible."It sounds as though the NFL is approaching a reasonable return date but there are still hurdles to clear in what has become a constantly evolving worldwide landscape.