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GamePlan: NFL’s Changes to COVID-19 Protocols Need to Happen Fast

The other night was going to be a big one for Tyler Higbee.

The Rams had just snapped a three-game losing streak, and had a chance in front of them, in Arizona, to turn the NFC West race into a race again. And they were getting that chance on the standalone primetime stage that Monday Night Football provides all players. Moreover, Higbee figured into the game plan in a way where one could envision it being 60 minutes of football to remember.

That was right about when everything came undone.

On Saturday, Rob Havenstein, Donte Deayon and Darrell Henderson came up positive for COVID-19.