The NFL have installed safeguards to ensure that technical issues don’t happen with the virtual 2020 NFL Draft. League sources say there will be multiple tests of the system prior to the draft, which begins April 23.
One safeguard will be a conference call with all 32 teams that will be in progress throughout the draft. If a general manager is hooked up to that call via landline and his internet connection cuts out, he would be able to unmute the call and announce his pick in a forum in which every other team could hear it Email is another option teams will have for sending in picks if there are online connection issues.