Matt Nagy’s wife nudged him awake at 2:51 a.m. Sunday.
She told him his phone was vibrating.
On the other line was Andre Tucker, the Bears’ head trainer and infectious controls officer. He gave the head coach news that would shake the franchise for the next six hours but ultimately prove to be a false alarm.
Nine tests taken by players and staff, administered by the Bears and sent to the BioReference laboratory on Saturday, came back positive for coronavirus overnight. By 9 a.m. Sunday, though, the team conducted its own testing and found them to be false positives.