Several members of the Kansas City Chiefs had an interesting early morning ahead of their Week 13 game with the Denver Broncos.
According to a report from FOX NFL Sunday’s Jay Glazer, the Chiefs were notified of seven positive COVID-19 tests at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. Among them were several members of the coaching staff, leaving a large concern of whether the team would have enough coaches for the game.
The positive test results required vigorous contact tracing and retesting to be done. The team would later learn that all of the positive results were actually false-positive tests due to an error at the lab where they were processed.
#Chiefs had a major scare when they got word at 3:30 am they had 7 positive COVID tests (including several coaches). For next 5 hours they had to do contact tracing, wake guys up to re-test and hours later found out they were ALL false positives. Crazy morning for them w a night
— Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) December 6, 2020
The Inside story – Week 13! The @Chiefs had a scare this AM with 7 false-positive covid tests, Carson Wentz and Drew Brees updates! @NFLonFOX #Football #Chiefs #Wentz #Brees pic.twitter.com/X9l6hZuBb8
— Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) December 6, 2020
Obviously, the good news is that these tests were false-positive and the team won’t have any COVID-19 issues heading into “Sunday Night Football.” The bad news is that this was likely a very disruptive early morning for members of the coaching staff and possibly some players. Thankfully, this week the Chiefs are playing an evening game. The team has some time to get a little extra rest ahead of their game with the Broncos. It serves as yet another reminder of some of the strange challenges that teams face during this season impacted by COVID-19.
