Union executives informed players of the agreement Tuesday evening on a conference call.
The two sides agreed to eliminate all four weeks of preseason one day after the owners offered to meet the demands of the players to do so. Owners originally wanted to reduce the preseason from four to two games (and were later willing to stage just one per team), but the NFLPA argued that a full August schedule would make it impossible for them to have the adequate acclimation period recommended by the joint medical task force, and that it was unnecessary to subject players to travel-related risk of contracting the coronavirus for exhibition games.
Each team will field rosters of 80 players, down from the usual 90.
The owners and NFLPA executives had discussed reducing roster sizes for some time due to social distancing concerns amid the COKOVID-19 pandemic.
CBS Sports reporter Jonathan Jones discussed the complicated plan.
