Ravens WR Willie Snead: ‘Can You Imagine the Fall With No Football at All? I Mean, I Can’t’

Willie Snead IV can't imagine what fall would look like without football.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the NFL to adjust its offseason schedule, each team around the league scrambled to make changes to its offseason programs.

By all accounts, the Ravens have made things as easy as possible for players to make the transition in Owings Mills to remain socially distant. Their hope is to make playing actual games - still not a guarantee - as easy as possible.

Despite challenges in Major League Baseball, there's not a lot of doubt from people around the league about whether a season can happen.

"I know basketball is going," Snead said on a Zoom call with reporters Wednesday. "I know baseball is going right now. But, when football comes around, can you imagine the fall with no football at all? I mean, I can't. So, it's going to be an adjustment without fans, especially in training camp, but I know once we start rolling on Sundays, I know the whole environment in our nation is going to change."

Around the facility, players are constantly being reminded to keep their distance, wash their hands and wear their masks.

"I feel like, here, they're doing a great job of just having everything...Locker rooms - we got separated lockers," Marquise Brown said. "We got monitors to track how close we are to people. They're making it as safe as possible, and that was something that everybody was skeptical about - how it would be. But once we got here, we were like, ‘This could work.'"

Both Snead and Brown made significant changes to their bodies in quarantine, as Snead dropped seven pounds and Brown added about 20. In quarantine, there was still a sense of normalcy as both players worked out for the upcoming season.

At the Ravens' facility, however, with all the precautionary measures in place, there's no real escape from how different the 2020 season is set to be.

"You have to take these tests every day," Snead said. "Coming in, we had to wait a week to get in the building, which was different. But once we got into the building, I could just tell the Ravens organization in itself took that next step of making sure everybody is safe. Everybody is doing everything they have to do to make sure that we are all being safe, staying clean, and just making sure that we are taking care of ourselves, at the end of the day."

With those specific measures in place the hope is to have a full, and as normal as possible, regular season.

"I know the NFL and the NFLPA took the best steps to make sure that we can have football this year," Snead said. "And when it comes down to it, every guy has to hold themself accountable to make sure that they're ready for Sundays, they're healthy for Sundays. And hopefully, we can make sure this thing goes all the way."

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