The NFL Draft will take place remotely this year, with general managers and head coaches making selections from home.

They will not even be allowed to go to their team facilities, sit six feet apart, and choose players in that method, according to Adam Schefter, who confirmed today with a memo sent to teams from the league office:

It does raise an interesting question –

Won’t somebody try to hijack communications? Surely Bill Belichick will find a way. If the Patriots are drafting #23 overall, and a team behind them is interested in a specific player, he could leverage that information into a trade or something similarly beneficial. I wouldn’t put it past those cheaters up there in New England.

John Harbaugh touched on this recently, via ESPN:

Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh is worried that sensitive team information is more vulnerable to getting stolen because of the technology that NFL teams are relying upon to connect with players during the coronavirus pandemic.

At a time when teams are preparing to go virtual — from playbooks to meetings — Harbaugh has immediately texted the Ravens’ information technology members when he’s read about Zoom or other online resources getting hacked. He’s been assured that everything is secure, but he reminds them about how other companies believed the same before their customers’ accounts were compromised.

You can’t trust Belichick. We need an extra set of eyeballs on the Patriots during this unprecedented time.