The NFL was always going to have to deal with an outbreak of COVID-19 cases at some point this season. You’re talking about too many players and too many people, period, for a pretty contagious virus to pass the league by. To their credit, the league turned sluggish early planning into a surprisingly effective response, and through the first three weeks of the season only one positive case popped up, and that was Atlanta’s own A.J. Terrell.
Now the league is dealing with something a little larger, with five players and six staff members on the Titans testing positive, and more potentially on the way.