World News – AU – Report: Saints player tests positive for COVID-19, continuing pandemic NFL migraine

The Saints are now reportedly awaiting test results from six other players who were in close proximity to the player on a team flight to Detroit

The Saints are currently set to face the Detroit Lions on the road on Sunday, but a positive coronavirus test will likely force another schedule adjustment for a league facing the realities of playing a season during a pandemic this week

For a while it looked like the NFL, against all odds, was pulling it off.The league reached the end of Week 3 with no known coronavirus infection during the season among the hundreds of players on its 32 teams

First, the Tennessee Titans and Minnesota Vikings had to shut down facilities after several members of the Titans tested positive after their week three game A total of 16 members of the Titans tested positive, although the Vikings appear to have avoided the infection

Titans game against Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 4 has finally been postponed to Week 7

Days later, positive tests on the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs, including Patriots quarterback Cam Newton, forced the NFL to postpone another game to at least Monday or Tuesday No other Patriots player would have tested positive, so the game could at least avoid a delay of several weeks

Whatever the NFL does to handle this week’s Saints-Lions game, this will be the third time this week it has to rush into action following a coronavirus infection And there is absolutely no guaranteed that this will be the last COVID-19 episode of a season that suddenly seems quite vulnerable

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