As announced by the NFL, a total of 106 players from the 32 teams were added to the COVID-19/Reserve list on Monday. An adjustment to the quarantine procedure is now imminent in order to allow play to continue.

Munich/New York – Sad record in the NFL: as the league announced, a total of 106 players from the 32 teams were placed on the COVID-19/Reserve list on Monday. A total of 521 players have been placed on the Corona roster so far in December.

74 active players and 22 athletes from the practice squads landed on the Corona roster, while ten more players were also already on the roster over the Christmas weekend but were not officially registered by the league until Monday. Among the prominent additions are wide receivers Mike Evans from Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Julio Jones from the Tennessee Titans.

Under the NFL’s new COVID-19 protocols, fully vaccinated, asymptomatic players can be removed from the roster if they submit two negative tests within 24 hours.

But that’s not all.

NFL may be changing quarantine procedure

The responsible Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA (CDC) have shortened the isolation period for people who have tested positive from ten to five days, according to “Pro Football Talk” on Monday.

According to the report, the NFL and its players’ union, the NFLPA, in their quest to keep the game running despite the current extreme cases of corona, could soon implement this change in their own protocols.

This would mean that unvaccinated individuals who test positive would only have to be isolated for five days, rather than ten, under the new guidelines. The rule would also allow vaccinated players who tested positive to return after just five days, even if they did not subsequently test negative again.