While the NFL and the NFLPA are hoping that everybody decides to and is able to receive a vaccination against Covid-19, the league and players union have no intention to mandate that players do so, the league’s chief medical officer, Dr. Allen Sills, said on Thursday.
This is hardly a shock, frankly, and not really even something I’d imagined that they were considering. But as we are seeing with CDC guidelines for the fully vaccinated, players who are vaccinated will likely have certain freedoms from restrictions tied to Covid-19 protocols than those who choose not to get vaccinated will still have to go through.