Bears receiver Allen Robinson says he’s not worried about the coronavirus pandemic and its inevitable blow to the NFL’s salary cap in 2021, when he’s scheduled to become a free agent.
He knows other sports have it worse — he’s talked to his sister Ashley, who’s the youth programs and player relations manager for the Detroit Tigers, about the impact the virus had across baseball.
“I don’t think that for us as a whole in the NFL will go through anything like that …” he said last month. “As far as my contract, I don’t think that has any effect on it — nor do I have a concern of that having an effect on it.