The NFLPA doesn’t want players to hold workouts with teammates as coronavirus numbers increase across the country, but some prominent players aren’t listening. In the days after the NFLPA advised players to stop working out together, Tom Brady, Matthew Stafford and Russell Wilson have all defied that recommendation.
NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith isn’t pleased about that. Smith, 56, reiterated the NFLPA’s position to USA Today, saying “those practices are not in the best interest of player safety.”
Smith said he understood why players wanted to keep getting in work with teammates, but said those practices are putting the season at risk.