Philadelphia Eagles coaching staff to quarantine, take COVID-19 test prior to training camp

The Philadelphia Eagles are less than a month away from training camp and according to Tim McManus of ESPN.com, the teams coaching staff and essential personnel will undergo a quarantine prior to the start of training camp.

Eagles coaches and essential staff will undergo a mandatory quarantine in Philadelphia area before being tested for COVID-19 in advance of camp, league sources confirm @GeoffMosherNFL. They need to be in Philly by July 10th, are scheduled to be tested on the 17th.

— Tim McManus (@Tim_McManus) July 2, 2020

Protocols for camp include daily COVID tests for all staff entering training facility and mandatory mask-wearing, a source added. Rookies are tentatively scheduled to report around the 21st, vets on the 28th.

— Tim McManus (@Tim_McManus) July 2, 2020

For spacing considerations, meetings are expected to be held at Lincoln Financial Field, practices at NovaCare.

— Tim McManus (@Tim_McManus) July 2, 2020

The anticipation is that practices will be heavily restricted in terms of employee attendance, with only the most essential staff present.

— Tim McManus (@Tim_McManus) July 2, 2020

The Eagles rookies will report for training camp July 22 according to Les Bowen of the Philadelphia Inquirer, with the team’s veterans returning July 28.

The NFL has expressed protocols that require “meetings to be conducted virtually to the extent possible,” and when in-person meetings are necessary, “the Eagles must make efforts to hold [them] outdoors with participants sitting apart from one another and wearing masks.” In-person meetings that do not permit physical distancing are prohibited.