After their game this past Sunday the Titans and Vikings have decided to stop all in person work (for now). They stopped due to eight Titans testing positive for COVID-19 earlier within the last 24 hours. Three players tested positive along with five staff/personnel members.
According to Charles Robinson, the Titans and Vikings became aware of a COVID outbreak late Monday/early Tuesday. They also began contact tracing and it included tracing the Titans return flight. Which could suggest that an infected person was in the team’s traveling party.
Both teams had personnel in their building’s earlier this morning. Both teams began sending people home at 6am and sending instructions to those not in the facility to only come and prepare for COVID testing.
There is yet to be word on what will happen this weekend but a decision should be made soon because both franchises have scheduled games this Sunday. The Vikings are supposed to play the Houston Texans and the Titans are scheduled to take on the Pittsburg Steelers.
Depending on the amount of players/personnel that tests positive for the virus, both teams may still be able to play if they quarantine all those players. These are the first teams in the NFL to have this problem (so far) in the COVID era, so it should be interesting to see how the teams and NFL responds to this.
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