Marlon Humphrey didn’t know. Neither did AJ Dillon. Neither did we.
On the eighth Sunday of an infinitely strange NFL season, after a week of relative stability, when 10 hours of football kicked into gear, nobody knew anything. Nobody could have known, or even predicted, that two NFL players who played over the weekend did so while COVID-positive.
This is why the news, when it arrived Monday morning, was so perplexing and indigestible. Humphrey, a Baltimore Ravens All-Pro cornerback, and Dillon, a Green Bay Packers rookie running back, had tested positive for the coronavirus.