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The NFL and the NFL Players Association have agreed on one of the biggest lingering issues regarding the approach to professional soccer in a pandemic.
According to a source with knowledge of the situation, the NFL agreed to conduct daily tests of COVID-19.
Mark Maske of the Washington Post reports that daily testing will last a minimum of two weeks and can be adjusted thereafter. (Players won’t want it to fit.)
The players had pushed aggressively for the daily tests. The league had wanted to test less frequently, in part because there are questions about the usefulness of daily tests, in part because test results will not be available for approximately 24 hours.
Still, more testing is better than less testing. As 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman recently told Peter King, the possibility of false positives and false negatives makes it even more important to test over and over again.
It won’t be cheap, but the NFL will pay the bill. As one source explained to PFT, BioReference Laboratories and the NFL have a general agreement for 120 tests per day, with a flat rate divided by the 32 teams. Additional tests are available to each team at a rate of $ 125 per test.
