A majority of minicamps are underway across the NFL this week, giving us an inside look at how teams are progressing heading into the 2026 season.
Are these practices generally lighter in pace, not including pads and sometimes even canceled if a team has already put in enough work throughout its offseason program? Sure, but there’s still plenty to take away from them before the league’s proverbial summer break. For instance, clubs with new head coaches are able to get a sense of how their program will be run with a different man in charge, and while true position battles are few and far between at this point in the football calendar, these practices at least give a preview of where teams feel their depth chart is (or isn’t) heading into training camp.
