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USA Today Sports If you thought that Steelers players were upset by the postponement of their Week 12 game from Thursday to Sunday, wait to see how they’d respond to a possible decision that the Ravens have forfeited the game. The vague threat of a forfeited game has loomed over the 2020...

Getty Images The Steelers’ game schedule has already been changed once this week because of the Ravens’ COVID-19 outbreak, and now the team is changing its practice schedule as well. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin canceled practice today, Aditi Kinkhabwala of NFL Network reports. The Steelers are...

USA Today Sports If the Ravens hadn’t been scheduled to play until Sunday in the first place, this week’s outbreak possibly would had been less severe. The fact that they were preparing to play on Thursday night exacerbated the situation — and quite possibly will keep the Week 12 game against...

Getty Images The NFL’s reigning Most Valuable Player has tested positive for COVID-19. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has tested positive, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. Jackson is the most prominent NFL player yet to test positive for the virus. The Ravens have had a major outbreak...

Getty Images The Week 12 game between the Ravens and Steelers was supposed to kick off tonight. It’s not. The game is now supposed to kick off on Sunday. It’s currently looking like it won’t. Per a league source, the Ravens received word tonight of multiple additional player positives from...

Getty Images The return of multiple additional positive COVID-19 tests on Thanksgiving night has thrust the Ravens into even more turmoil. It also has created significant confusion regarding the status of Sunday’s scheduled game against the Steelers. Per a league source with direct knowledge...

Getty Images The Steelers didn’t play on Thanksgiving Day, having had their scheduled game move to Sunday at 1:15 p.m. ET because of a COVID-19 outbreak on the Ravens. The Steelers didn’t practice Thursday, either. But the team did make roster moves. They announced they placed running back...

Getty Images The Ravens placed defensive end Jihad Ward on the COVID-19 reserve list Thursday. He becomes the eighth player — and third defensive lineman — to go on the list in the past week. Two Ravens players already were on COVID-19, with third quarterback Trace McSorley and defensive back...

Getty Images The positive COVID-19 tests in Baltimore continued to come on Wednesday. According to multiple reports, the latest round of testing for the Ravens returned multiple new positive results. That marks four straight days with positive tests for members of the organization. The...

Getty Images So who’s the person who sparked the outbreak in Baltimore? The Ravens decline to say. “There will be no names released,” Ravens spokesman Chad Steele told PFT on Wednesday night. NFL Media has reported that it was a strength and conditioning coach. The Ravens have two of them. So...

Getty Images The Ravens’ COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in a staff member being disciplined. In a cryptic statement that offered no details, the Ravens announced that they had taken action against one unnamed staffer. “The Baltimore Ravens have disciplined a staff member for conduct...

Getty Images It was obvious there was more to the story the minute the Ravens released a cryptic statement announcing they have disciplined a staff member for conduct related to the COVID-19 outbreak. Now comes word from Tom Pelissero of NFL Media that it was a strength and conditioning coach...

Getty Images Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is the favorite to win the MVP award. He’s a shoo-in for the Pro Bowl. Mahomes leads all players in early Pro Bowl voting, the NFL announced Wednesday. Mahomes, who twice has earned Pro Bowl honors, has 143,355 votes. Seattle quarterback...

Getty Images When the NFL postponed Thursday night’s Ravens-Steelers game to Sunday, some complained that the Ravens finagled more favorable treatment than other teams that were required to proceed with their games despite COVID-19 issues. Most notably, the 49ers had to play despite missing...

Getty Images The best game of the three to be played on Thanksgiving will now not be played on Thanksgiving. The NFL has announced that Thursday night’s Ravens-Steelers game has been moved to Sunday, due to the COVID-19 outbreak with which the Ravens have been dealing. Game time and network...

Getty Images Thursday’s game between the Ravens and Steelers has been moved to Sunday. The next question is whether it moves from Sunday. It can’t move to Monday or Tuesday, unless the league also moves next Thursday night’s game between the Cowboys and Ravens. Per a source with knowledge of...

Getty Images The Steelers’ Thanksgiving night game has been postponed because of a COVID-19 outbreak on the Ravens, and Steelers players are not happy about it. Pittsburgh previously lost its bye week because the league juggled the schedule after a COVID-19 outbreak on the Titans, and JuJu...

Getty Images The Ravens-Steelers game originally scheduled for Thanksgiving night has moved to Sunday afternoon, with a 1:15 p.m. ET kickoff on NBC. The game, which was postponed because of several COVID-19 cases among Ravens players and staff, had been slated for prime time, as part of NBC’s...

Getty Images Positive COVID-19 tests for Ravens players and others in the organization in recent days led to the closure of the team’s facility on Tuesday, but it has not altered plans for them to face the Steelers on Thursday night. There could be changes to the Ravens’ plans for getting to...

Getty Images In the final weeks of the regular season, the NFL issues weekly updates on playoff scenarios to keep people apprised of who can get into the postseason and how they can do it. The first of those updates came on Tuesday. The Steelers are 10-0 and they could book one of the seven...