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Getty Images After the Titans’ outbreak began, it took the league several days to show up to investigate whether the team followed all applicable COVID-19 protocols. With only one positive in New England, the league moved much more quickly. Per a league source, the NFL promptly launched an...

Getty Images Quarterback Josh Allen’s play has been a big reason for the Bills’ undefeated start to the season, so there was reason to worry when he went to the locker room after coming down hard on his left shoulder in the first half of the game. Allen’s absence turned out to be a brief one...

Getty Images Titans coach Mike Vrabel said earlier this week that no one is to blame for the team’s outbreak. The NFL is nevertheless looking for someone to blame. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the league and the NFL Players Association are investigating whether the Titans failed to...

Getty Images The NFL’s experience with COVID-19 unfolded, as one source explained it to PFT late Saturday, like an average golfer who somehow managed to finagle a par on each of he first three holes of the course. Despite the early success, a triple-bogey was always inevitable. The...

Getty Images All teams have played three games. At least two teams won’t play at all in Week Four. Four more teams may not play in Week Four. The pandemic suddenly has affected pro football in a major way, and there’s no reason to think it will get any better, especially with flu season...

Getty Images The NFL hit Titans defensive end Jadeveon Clowney hard for two hits in last week’s game. Clowney was fined a total of $35,000 for separate incidents of unnecessary roughness, $15,000 for one and $20,000 for the other, according to Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. One...

Getty Images Sunday morning brought good news for the Saints when fullback Michael Burton‘s re-test for COVID-19 came back negative after a Saturday positive. The news out of Tennessee on the testing front continues to be bad, however. According to multiple reports, two more members of the...

Getty Images Before the season, the NFL boasted of a new contact-tracing technology that would keep players from getting too close together and that would make it easier to work backward to identify others who need to be tested and/or evaluated in the event a player tests positive. During the...

Getty Images Events of recent days make it more and more clear that the best way (perhaps the only way) to get all 256 regular-season and 13 postseason games played this year will be to put all teams in hotels, immediately. Per multiple sources, the NFL gladly would do that. The question is...

Getty Images The pattern this week has been that reports surface in the morning that members of the Titans organization have tested positive for COVID-19 list and that the Titans put players on the reserve/COVID-19 list in the afternoon. That pattern held on Saturday. A report of a positive...

Getty Images Some within league circles have wondered aloud why the Patriots caught a break from the NFL, with the news that starting quarterback Cam Newton tested positive for COVID-19 resulting in a postponement of Sunday’s game against the Chiefs — a game in which the Pats were a seven-point...

Getty Images The positive tests keep on coming in Tennessee. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that three more members of the Titans organization have tested positive for COVID-19. One player and two other team personnel were positive in this round of testing. That brings the number of positive...

Getty Images The NFL had its first COVID-19 outbreak this week when the Tennessee Titans were hit hard by the virus, but the league appears to have dodged a bullet with no in-game transmissions. The Vikings, who played the Titans on Sunday, have still had zero positive COVID-19 tests...

Getty Images If the Titans hadn’t been generating a daily stream of positive COVID-19 tests, the NFL possibly would proceed with Sunday’s Patriots-Chiefs game, with quarterback Cam Newton treated no differently than any other injured player. Post-Titans, the analysis changes. Even with daily...

Getty Images We learned on Friday morning that the Titans had two more players with positive COVID-19 tests and the team placed those players on the reserve/COVID-19 list later in the day. Wide receivers Adam Humphries and Cameron Batson are the latest additions to the list. The list is for...

Getty Images On Monday night, several Raiders attended an indoor event with too many people and not enough (no) masks. The NFL has not issued a blanket ban on similar activities by the Raiders and all other teams, yet. A report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal claims that the league sent a memo...

Getty Images The COVID-19 outbreak on the Tennessee Titans is not going away. Two more Titans players received positive tests today, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. The two players have not been identified, but they’ll join cornerback Kristian Fulton, linebacker Kamalei Correa, defensive...

Getty Images As the NFL and NFL Players Association deals with the aftermath of the first COVID-19 outbreak of the 2020 season, the league and union should dust off concepts that previously had been discussed but not adopted. Case in point: The league had proposed a “COVID Academy” aimed at...

Getty Images Titans coach Mike Vrabel recently said that no one bears blame for the COVID-19 outbreak within his team. The NFL Players Association isn’t willing to reach that same conclusion. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the NFLPA plans to conduct a “thorough review” of the...

Getty Images The NFL has juggled the schedule to allow the Steelers and Titans to play this season after their game scheduled for Sunday had to be postponed. The league announced today that the Steelers-Titans game that was postponed because of the Titans’ COVID-19 outbreak will now be played...