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Getty Images The Vikings returned to practice Thursday under new enhanced, supplemental protocols that the Titans also will have to implement when their team facility reopens. Lindsay Jones of TheAthletic.com reports that the league sent a memo to all teams Thursday about post-exposure...

Getty Images As of Tuesday morning, it appeared that the NFL had cracked the code on COVID-19. By Tuesday night, the vibe became much different and darker, with the league’s ability to stage 48 regular-season games seeming to be the product of luck as much as anything else. That luck ran out...

Getty Images The Vikings closed their facility on Tuesday after the first round of positive COVID-19 tests in Tennessee because they played the Titans last weekend, but they are ready to get back to work. Vikings General Manager Rick Spielman said on Wednesday that the team expected to reopen...

Getty Images Titans head coach Mike Vrabel found out on Thursday morning that his team will not be playing at all in Week Four and told reporters on a videoconference from his home that he knew that was a possibility if more members of the organization tested positive for COVID-19. Two more...

Getty Images The Steelers picked up an unexpected bye week via the postponement of their Week Four game against the Titans. If the Steelers-Titans game moves to Week Seven (with Steelers-Ravens moving to Week Eight, when Pittsburgh would have had a bye), Pittsburgh will end up playing games in...

Getty Images Titans coach Mike Vrabel told his team at 8:30 a.m. local time Thursday that the league had postponed their Week Four game against the Steelers. “I think they were somewhat shocked,” Vrabel said, via Erik Bacharach of the Nashville Tennessean. “They wanted to play. They were...

Getty Images When the NFL announced that they are rescheduling for another week the Steelers-Titans game that was originally set for Sunday, they also announced that two more members of the Titans organization had tested positive for COVID-19. They did not identify that player, but the Titans...

Getty Images Barring a further outbreak among the Titans, they’ll host the Steelers on Monday or Tuesday. Monday apparently is the target. Paul Kuharsky reports that the CBS crew that will be working the game has been told that it will happen on Monday night. This will give the Titans limited...

Getty Images Kamalei Correa has become the latest Titans player to land on the COVID-19 list. The team placed the outside linebacker on the reserve list Wednesday. The NFL found no close contacts with Correa, a league spokesman told Erik Bacharach of The Tennessean. The NFL already has...

Getty Images The postponement of Sunday’s Steelers-Titans has created a challenge for the NFL. It also will create another national TV window. Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports that the game between Pittsburgh and Tennessee, which originally was lumped within the 1:00 p.m. ET...

Getty Images Ben Roethlisberger stated the obvious. Or what should be the obvious. But after fines to five NFL coaches for failing to wear face coverings in Week Two, an NFL investigation of the Raiders for a locker room breach and video of Raiders players at a large gathering Monday night, it...

Getty Images After the first week of the regular season, there was reason to wonder if Stephen Gostkowski would still be kicking for the Titans in Week Three. Gostkowski missed three field goals and an extra point in his first game since going on injured reserve early in the 2019 season. The...

Getty Images Eyes around the NFL have been on the Titans and Vikings in the wake of Tuesday’s news that eight members of the Titans organization tested positive for COVID-19 and the results of further testing on people from both teams came through on Wednesday morning. NFL Media reports that...

Getty Images Sunday’s Titans-Steelers game has been postponed as a result of the multiple positive COVID-19 cases affecting the Titans, a league source tells PFT. The Titans have shut their facility down for the week because of the positive tests, which yesterday included three players and...

Getty Images Four Titans players (and not counting, hopefully) have tested positive for COVID-19. Coach Mike Vrabel told reporters on Wednesday that not all of them are asymptomatic. Via Jim Wyatt of the team’s official website, Vrabel said that some of the players who tested positive are...

Getty Images The NFL postponed Sunday’s game between the Steelers and Titans on Wednesday because of a number of positive COVID-19 tests that have forced the Titans to close their practice facility this week. A new date for the game has not been settled at this point. The NFL said that playing...

Getty Images The Seattle Seahawks waived linebacker D’Andre Walker on Tuesday after spending three weeks with the team. Walker was claimed off waivers from the Tennessee Titans at the end of training camp. Walker, a fifth-round pick of the Titans last year, was released by the team during...

Getty Images The response to eight members of the Titans organization testing positive for COVID-19 this week extends to the officiating crew that worked the game. Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com reports that the NFL will be testing referee Clete Blakeman and the rest of his crew every day this week...

Getty Images Sports books are not taking bets on the Vikings’ and Titans’ upcoming games until more information is known about the COVID-19 situation surrounding both teams. The Titans had three players and five staff members test positive for COVID-19, resulting in the team shutting down its...

Getty Images The Steelers pushed head coach Mike Tomlin’s press conference back six hours on Tuesday, but he didn’t have more answers to the plans for this week than the team had when the decision to postpone was made. The Titans had three players and five others in the organization test...