Earlier Tuesday on its website, the NFLPA listed 95 NFL players with a known positive COVID-19 test. They changed the number Tuesday night.
The NFLPA’s website now lists 59 players with a known positive coronavirus test.
The NFLPA posted a statement saying the higher number included all known positives across the league, including staff. Thirty-six of the positive tests were non-players.
In fact, the number now is lower than it was on July 10 when the NFLPA reported 72 players had tested positive.
Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, Rams center Brian Allen, Broncos pass rusher Von Miller and Rams left tackle Andrew Whitworth are among the players who are known to have had COVID-19.
Maybe it was a typo
Hmmmm….did someone accidently transpose the numbers from “59” to a “95”?
Umm…I don’t know, couldn’t have been a typo; could it? Nah!
And so it begins.
Cancel the season. Avoid litigation.
If the center or the QB comes down with COVID19, I hope you have a complete second team that has been practicing separate. Center is going to be breathing on the ball.
Training camps arent even open and already 2% have tested positive for covid.
one practice starts, it will spread.
It would be interesting to see which team had the most positives because then you would want to track and keep an eye on that team to see if they have more of a break out. That’s how you do contract tracing.
Greedy capital gains is why there will be a season. Tragic.
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No, the 95 number was including non-players. 59 players + 36 non-players = 95 total positives.
I don’t see why a player would need to sit out if he tests negative, even if a teammate tests positive
But don’t touch the towel!
i’d believed them more if they just said an intern entered 95 by mistake…
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Keep in mind this number includes all positive tests dating back to April
As infections and deaths make record highs in the US, the NFL is full steam ahead.
Not a clue!
We don’t need football that badly!
How many have recovered? I’m guessing all, otherwise we’d hear about “nfl” player in hospital or passed away…
TheTruth says:
July 22, 2020 at 10:23 am
As infections and deaths make record highs in the US, the NFL is full steam ahead.
Not a clue!
I think, sadly, that this season will forever have an asterisk next to it.
Breathing on the ball and passing the virus that way isn’t an issue. The virus mostly infects hosts through the exhalations of people being inhaled by others
The players most at risk are the linemen, who are lined up just inches from their opponents, usually breathing like freight trains. Wearing guards/masks, will help, but I can’t see this working for a whole season.
I wish them all luck. I want to watch football as much as everyone else, but even if they play, the season will have a huge asterisk next to it since many teams will be playing long stretches with second-string players.
If the virus isn’t deadly to athletes, why not just play the season?
Imagine if you got sick you just didn’t visit elderly or high risk people?
It’s time to move on, shutting down didn’t help, masks are questionable and the sun keeps coming up every day. If you’re high risk lay low, the virus remains active no matter what we do. It’s time to move on, it’s a risk we all take.
The virus could easily be deadly to some of the athletes. Many of the players have issues such as diabetes or forms of asthma, which puts them at risk. Other players may be at risk and don’t know it.
It’s NOT the flu and it is NOT harmless to most people. Many that show few symptoms are now dealing with organ damage.
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