The NFL and the NFLPA have agreed to a system of daily testing for COVID-19 in order to begin training camps. The agreement ends a huge hurdle that had driven a divisive wedge between players and the league.
One day after many prominent players voiced their concerns over workplace safety and health conditions with the “We Want to Play” hashtag campaign, the agreement mollifies some of the major concern. Players will be tested daily for the first two weeks of training camp, beginning at the time of reporting to the team facilities.
The daily testing will drop to being every other day is the positive test rate falls below 5 percent. That is the threshold for daily testing. Any increase to above 5 percent means a return to daily testing.
The Lions open training camp next week in Allen Park. Fans will not be permitted to attend, as is the case with all 32 NFL teams.
