Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Vrabel has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Vrabel told members of the media he woke up Sunday with a sore throat, got a COVID test and it came back positive. He was immediately put into the NFL’s COVID-19 health and safety protocol.
Vrabel has to post two negative COVID-19 tests 24 hours apart from each other before he can return to the Titan’s facility, according to the league’s protocol — vaccinated and asymptomatic players and staff are eligible to return from a COVID-19 quarantine sooner than unvaccinated individuals that test positive. Those players and staff face a minimum 10-day quarantine.
As of now, no Titans players have tested positive, according to Vrabel, who also explained what next steps the team was taking.
“We have spoken with the people that track the tracing,” Vrabel said. “Those individuals will continue to be tested. Whatever the protocols are we will follow them exactly how they’re laid out.”
The Titans beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday, 34-3. They’d spent the week leading up to that preseason game holding joint practices with the Bucs.
