CLEVELAND, OHIO - APRIL 28: Wall of NFL team helmets on display inside the NFL Locker Room at the NFL Draft Experience on April 28, 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Duane Prokop/Getty Images)
The NFL is letting teams know now that they will forfeit games in 2021 if they are responsible for a covid outbreak and a game must be rescheduled.
Of course, the NFL will do their best to reschedule a game because of covid but NFL Network reporter Tom Pelissero confirmed that the league sent out communication that “if a game cannot be rescheduled during the 18-week season in 2021 due to a COVID outbreak among unvaccinated players, the team with the outbreak will FORFEIT and be credited with a loss for playoff seeding”
Last week, Pelissero said that “13 teams are over the 85% threshold” and that nearly 74% of NFL players have had at least one shot.