The Kansas City Chiefs coaching staff can return to team facilities starting on Friday.
Back on May 19, teams were allowed by the NFL to open their facilities, but with stringent criteria including limits to the types of staff members that were allowed to return. Coaching staff previously weren’t allowed to return to team facilities. According to a new memo sent to teams by the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, NFL coaching staff will now be among the allowed team employees to return to facilities beginning on Friday, June 5.
The memo also includes the expansion from 75 employees allowed at a given time in team facilities to 100 employees allowed.
Here’s a full summary of the memo shared by ESPN’s Adam Schefter:
Again, everything must follow state and local regulations, which shouldn’t be a problem for Kansas City as they’ve relaxed restrictions as of May 31.
One interesting note is that coaches who are considered to be in a higher risk category for COVID-19 can work with the team doctors or personal physicians to set up special accommodations to make them feel safer in the workplace. That’ll be important with Chiefs’ coaches like Andy Reid and Steve Spagnuolo, who are both bordering the high-risk age category when it comes to the virus.
