SI.com · Dec 24, 2021
GamePlan: Inside the NFL's Most Recent COVID-19 Saga
There are lots of areas of an NFL facility where a player might expect his personal space to be intruded on. Normally, the hot tub isn’t one of them. And yet, there Joel Bitonio and Austin Hooper were 10 days ago, when a Browns trainer came in to, more or less, break up their pool party.
“The guy just came in, he was like, ‘Hey Hoop, you tested positive. You gotta get out,’” Bitonio said on his way home Wednesday. “And he said, ‘What? What do you mean’ And I’m standing five feet away from him and I’m like, ‘Uh, what’s happening here?’”