CLEVELAND, Ohio — Between virtual draft meetings run by GM Andrew Berry and virtual offensive meetings run by Alex Van Pelt, Browns rookie head coach Kevin Stefanski is out on his front lawn back in Minnesota hitting plastic golf balls with his three school-age kids or riding bikes with them.

“This is definitely testing my parenting skills,’’ Stefanski joked on a conference call Thursday with Browns reporters.

It’s certainly not what Stefanski envisioned for his first offseason as Browns coach. But of course, nothing is as anyone expected during the coronavirus pandemic.

In normal times, Stefanski would be getting settled into a new home in Cleveland with his wife, Michelle, and their two sons and a daughter. They’d be training the new puppy he promised when he first took the job, and he’d be getting ready to welcome his players to the offseason program on April 6 and thinking about what to say in his opening remarks.

Now, there’s only one significant thing about next Monday.

“It’s my daughter’s fifth birthday,’’ he said.

About two weeks ago, Stefanski flew back to Minnesota to be with his family, who hadn’t yet moved here. When the world became frozen in place due to COVID-19, he stayed.

“The plan was not to come out here for two weeks,’’ he said. “I don’t want to say stuck out here, but we paused, we postponed our move and I guess that’s what everybody in their life is doing right now. We’re just taking it day by day, working remotely, a lot of family time.’’

In dividing up the home-schooling duties, Stefanski drew the long straw.

“I’m more of a better gym coach [than a head coach] right now, so PE has been a big hit in this household,’’ he said. “Just like everybody else, taking it one day at a time and staying safe and staying together and listening to the advice of the public and medical officials. We’re staying home and being safe and I hope you’re doing the same.’’

In fact, Stefanski began the conference call by expressing concern for reporters and their families.

“I do want to make sure they everyone knows that we’re thinking about you guys,’’ he said. “This is touching all of us and in different ways and it’s unique and I know we’ll talk football here, but I’m thinking about you and your families.’’

Stefanski, 37, is grateful for the chance to be with his family during this trying time in Minnesota, the only home his kids have ever known.

“That’s a credit to Dee and Jimmy [Haslam] and what a supportive group we have, where family comes first,’’ he said. “If you’re going to be quarantined, made more sense to be at a place that they knew initially and are used to this house, so to speak.’’

Stefanski has already had the coronavirus hit close to home, with Pistons longtime scout Maury Hanks, a close associate of Stefanski’s father Ed, a Pistons executive, hospitalized with the virus in Tennessee.

“He’s been with my dad I think everywhere since the late ’90s, they were with the New Jersey Nets together,’’ Stefanski said. “I’ve been getting updates every day from my dad on Maury and I think it’s sadly going to be true that a lot of us are going to know people that are dealing with this.’’

With so many people losing loved ones and struggling on ventilators, Stefanski isn’t about to complain about having to work remotely in his first offseason as an NFL head coach.

“All 32 clubs are going to be playing by the same rules, whenever we see our players, whether it’s via a tablet or seeing them in person,’’ Stefanski said. “We’ll have our program ready to go and our installs ready to go. We’re in the same boat as everybody else.”

Like most folks these days, he’s Zooming and FaceTiming and Microsoft Teaming his way through the workday.

“I’m sure it looks like a lot of the rest of the world,’’ he said. “It’s those virtual meetings. I sit in on the offensive staff meeting for a little while. Coach Van Pelt is running that. We’re sharing a screen and looking at that and looking at drawings and looking at video and making corrections. Joe [Woods] is doing the same with the defensive staff.

“A.B. [Berry] is having draft meetings as we speak. I was a fly on the wall as those guys were getting going. The way we’ve attacked it, it’s full steam ahead. Whatever the rules are, we’ll play by them, but it cannot slow down our preparation. We’re right on court of where we need to be.”

Like everyone else in the NFL, Stefanski is waiting to hear from the NFL on how to proceed with the offseason program and distance learning for his players.

“I will tell you we have plans and then contingency plans and contingency plans for those contingency plans,” he said. “We’re trying to think about this and getting it from every angle, pending the rules and pending the structure that the NFL and NFLPA agree upon. So whatever that may be and I do not have the answer on what that is yet, we are ready.’’

He credited the coaching staff, the high performance staff, the personnel and IT departments for creating a virtual Browns world in which they can do just about everything but practice together. He’s happy to hear that so many of his players, including Baker Mayfield, are posting workout videos and photos and staying in shape while adhering to state and medical guidelines.

Stefanski acknowledged that the Browns will have to think creatively about how to build team unity when coaches and players — most of whom don’t know each other — are meeting online. In addition to the installation that takes place at this time of year, bonds are formed, wives become friends, chemistry is developed.

“When you’re not sitting in the locker room for an hour with each other, there’s some missed opportunities to build a team, but that’s something that we’re thinking long and hard about some ways to do that,’’ he said. “We have ideas.’’

As for the draft, he noted it’s not ideal to miss out on visits with prospects and have to conduct teleconference calls with players that last up to an hour — sessions he hasn’t been sitting in on much.

“I know our position coaches have been doing that,’’ he said. “I sat in on all the meetings in Indianapolis but I know there’s certain rules related to how long you can talk to these guys.’’

He said the Browns are fully prepared for the draft to go on as scheduled April 23-25. If they can be together in small groups in the war room at team headquarters, great. If not, he’ll stay in Minnesota and conduct business as usual.

But don’t blame him if he has to run outside and hit a few plastic golf balls between picks.