There is no good time to go on the league’s reserve/COVID-19 list, even with isolation requirements being shortened. Nobody wants to be sick, nobody wants to spread the virus, and these being NFL players, none of them want to miss games. It’s a bad situation, one teams have been working hard to avoid all year.
Unfortunately, while the Falcons have had very few players land on the list in 2021, that’s changing before their matchup with Buffalo this weekend. They’ve added four more players to the list, including Jaylinn Hawkins and Hayden Hurst, and now have 12 players on the list with only a few days before Sunday’s game.