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Build your customFanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis onMinnesota Vikings and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. For 2021, applying secrecy to the important category of unvaccinated players undermines the integrity of every wager placed on every team with unvaccinated players on the roster. Know thyself. Casey Muir (@Casey_Muir1) August 31, 2021. There are 18 pitchers and eight position players. Last year, the NFL repeatedly had to reschedule games due to Covid outbreaks within teams, but this is something they wont be doing this year. Earlier, Buffalo Bills Cole Beasley had also very publicly announced that he wouldnt be part of the group of people who are taking the Covid vaccine as it is his body, and that is what he felt comfortable doing: Public Service Announcement pic.twitter.com/XjQicdvnKm, Also Read: Atlanta Falcons Training Camp 2021: Start Date, Location, Roster Battles, and Fan Policy. The NFL is eliminating the distinction between vaccinated and unvaccinated players for the remainder of the postseason, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports. !If it is about safety test everyone !!! Eventually, unvaccinated players will become fed up with watching all of the vaccinated players having fun from a distance. Essentially, the Cardinals have little influence on him. Pete Gilbert of WBALTV11 reported that Jackson is not vaccinated, which would mean he will miss 10 days of training camp. Im trying to dumb it down. Put simply, for vaccinated and unvaccinated players, the 2021 season is a completely dissimilar existence. The NFL has relaxed the return-to-play protocols for asymptomatic, vaccinated players to come back as soon as 24 hours after a positive test. Cousins, Mond, and Stanley all being unvaccinated forced Jake Browning to take every single rep at quarterback on Saturday night. They have mandatory injury reports already. Here are three players who could put their teams' futures in danger as a result of their refusal to be vaccinated. Zero vaccination, period, said Perryman, then on the Panthers roster. Matthew Judon and Leonard Fournette were other players who spoke out on Twitter regarding the new rules: The NFLPA Fucking sucks Matthew Judon (@man_dammn) July 22, 2021 Add #Bucs RB Leonard Fournette to the list of players against getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Edwards vaccination status is unclear. Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) July 22, 2021, Also Read: DeAndre Hopkins thinks 45,000 people died from the COVID vaccine: DeAndre Hopkins Twitter Activity Strongly Against NFL Vaccine Policy and new Covid Rules. This season its over to the individuals, creating a natural dividing line between the haves and the have-nots: those who have taken a vaccine and those who have not. The goal, the league has consistently said, is keeping players and staff members healthy amid a pandemic. The Cardinals cannot afford to pressure Hopkins too much, because without Hopkins, the Cardinals' offense would not be the same. Does the NFL have to worry about stars like DeAndre Hopkins not getting vaccinated? And its no wonder. But holdouts remain. Unvaccinated players testing positive for Covid remain under the same 2020 protocols, meaning a 10-day isolation period and a return once asymptomatic. As one player explained in a particularly relatable example, unvaccinated players had to report for testing at 7:30 a.m. on a day his team played a 1 p.m. preseason contest. The bleak on-field scenario is that theyre forced to forfeit a game or two and that they will have to pay for the privilege. Both the teams starting quarterback, Cousins, and the backup Nate Stanley were deemed to be in close contact with Mond and were forced to sit out under the leagues protocol. pic.twitter.com/1IqlksESap, Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) July 22, 2021. Ditto for Patriots quarterback Cam Newton, who missed five days.