The NFL is continuing with the 2020 Draft as planned even with the world under the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the league is looking at making tweaks to help teams as they deal with the unique circumstances.

NFL Vice President of Football Operations, Troy Vincent, said the league is thinking about allowing teams more time to complete a trade while they are on the clock. With everything having to take place by phone or Skype, it might take longer for teams to complete a deal. Vincent said if they do decide to allow this it would probably a one-time exemption to each team.

This could be just one of many changes with the way the NFL war rooms are going to be laid out. All NFL team facilities are closed, but the league is allowing teams to meet somewhere else, with 10 or fewer people as long as they are maintaining the proper social distancing. Teams will also be required to provide proper hand-washing and sanitizing procedures.

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Ten people seems like a fairly large number of people, but that it is still fewer than what is usually in a war room. If all the scouts and coaches aren't in the same room it's going to take longer for teams to communicate with each other before they can start negotiating with teams they are trying to work out a trade with.

In the next couple of weeks, teams are probably going to present more issues they may run into, which the NFL will have to evaluate. It's possible we'll see more changes to the NFL Draft to make it a smoother process.