It’s unofficially official: Thanks in large part to a relentless battery of daily COVID-19 testing and safety protocols, the NFL couldn’t have asked for a better start to a pandemic season.
After the league’s opening week of games and daily tests, no new NFL players were added to the league’s COVID-19 reserve list between Monday and Wednesday. That’s an unofficial indication that the NFL made it through Week 1 of the season with flying colors, possibly to the point of not a single player infection arising since Sunday’s games.
The official numbers for the period of Sept.