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\nIn an apparent coordinated Twitter barrage Sunday, top players from across the NFL called on the league to enhance its coronavirus safety protocols, just a day before some players are set to report to preseason training camps, warning that the current measures threaten whether a full season could actually be played.
The NFL is planning a much different setup than the widely-publicized NBA \u201cbubble,\u201d where all teams are in a central location with strictly restricted access. Instead, the NFL plans to operate largely as it would have. The plan is for teams to conduct training camps over the next several weeks ahead of the season opening in September. The season will be played out with teams traveling city-to-city as they would have normally, only with far fewer fans in the stadiums. The NFL has said it will allow each team to come up with its own policy for having fans in the stands.
\u201cWe don\u2019t believe that the right way of looking at this is somehow bending COVID to football,\u201d DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the NFLPA, said Friday. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to bend football to the virus.\u201d
72 \u2014 That\u2019s how many NFL players are known to have tested positive for coronavirus, making up around 2.5% of all the league\u2019s players.
The 2020 NFL season is scheduled to kick off on Sept.10, when the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs host the Houston Texans. Super Bowl LV is scheduled for Feb.7,2021 in Tampa, Florida.
NFLPA wants players tested daily for virus when camps open (Associated Press)
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The plan to start the 2020 NFL season: What we know and what we don’t know (ESPN)
NFL on the clock with COVID-19 safety concerns, whether it admits it or not (Detroit Free Press)
72 NFL players tested positive for coronavirus (ESPN)
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