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Joe Starkey: NFL must consider a COVID-19 buffer week — and forfeits

I hope this goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: The priority here is neither the Steelers’ record nor your fantasy team’s Week 4 lineup, but rather the health of afflicted members of the Tennessee Titans organization.

It doesn’t feel right to start anywhere else.

Meanwhile, the NFL has a business to run. So do the Steelers — and another team’s COVID-19 outbreak does not need to unnecessarily sabotage their season.

It might, though. The NFL would appear to have limited options in making up Sunday’s postponement:

• It could move the Steelers’ Week 7 game at Baltimore to Week 8, when both teams have a scheduled bye, and send the Steelers to Tennessee in Week 7, when the Titans were supposed to be off.