Aaron Rodgers Out After Positive Coronavirus Test

Eco-friendly Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers will certainly miss out on a minimum of Sunday’s video game at Kansas City after examining favorable for the coronavirus.

Jordan Love, the group’s first-round choice in 2020, will certainly begin in Rodgers’s area.

The earliest that Rodgers can return, based upon N.F.L. and also N.F.L. Athletes Organization procedures for unvaccinated workers, is Nov. 13, the day prior to Eco-friendly Bay plays the Seattle Seahawks, if he stays asymptomatic. He has to rest a minimum of 10 days and also examination adverse two times, with 24 hr in between examinations.

Rodgers, when asked on Aug. 26 whether he had actually been immunized versus Covid-19, reacted that he had actually been “vaccinated.” NFL Network reported that he is unvaccinated.

Rodgers included, “There’s people on the group that have not been immunized. I believe it’s an individual choice. I’m not mosting likely to evaluate those people.”

Immunized N.F.L. gamers that evaluate favorable go through much less extensive procedures for go back to group tasks. They have to create adverse examinations 24 hr apart if they are asymptomatic. If they have signs, they have to create adverse examinations 24 hr apart and also be asymptomatic for two days.

Although the N.F.L. has actually not mandated Covid-19 injections, it has highly urged them by setting up tight charges for groups with unvaccinated workers, consisting of the loss of video games.

For example, unvaccinated gamers are needed to undertake everyday screening, use masks inside the group’s head office, and also traveling independently from their immunized colleagues. They are likewise restricted from participating in a host of tasks, from collecting outdoors group head office in teams of greater than 3 gamers to going to houseparty or bars without using individual safety tools. Those that breach the procedures go through penalties.

Rodgers was not using a mask in pictures that flowed on social media sites today of him going to a Halloween celebration with a number of colleagues. The Packers have actually been struck hard by favorable examinations over the last 2 weeks, having actually played without their leading 2 receivers, Davante Adams and also Allen Lazard, and also their protective planner, Joe Barry, in recently’s video game at Arizona. The group’s third-string quarterback, Kurt Benkert, was positioned on the Covid-19 checklist Tuesday.

The organization stated in a declaration Wednesday that it would certainly evaluate the Packers’ handling of procedures. “The key duty for enforcement of the Covid procedures within club centers resides each club,” N.F.L. spokesperson Brian McCarthy stated. “Failing to correctly apply the procedures has actually led to technique being evaluated versus private clubs in the past.”

The N.F.L. has actually taken violations of Covid procedures seriously. Last period, it fined 5 groups– the Baltimore Ravens, Las Las Vega Raiders, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints and also Tennessee Titans– for numerous offenses. The organization likewise fined trains thousands of hundreds of bucks for not using face masks correctly throughout video games.