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Getty Images After the Titans’ outbreak began, it took the league several days to show up to investigate whether the team followed all applicable COVID-19 protocols. With only one positive in New England, the league moved much more quickly. Per a league source, the NFL promptly launched an...

Getty Images The Patriots continue to get good news on COVID-19 testing. A source tells PFT that all of the Patriots’ PCR test samples collected on Sunday came back negative. The PCR tests are the most accurate tests but also take longer to come back than the rapid point-of-care tests that the...

Getty Images The Patriots are set to head to Kansas City for their rescheduled game against the Chiefs on Monday night after there were no positive results in Sunday’s round of COVID-19 testing. The same was true of testing performed on the home team. Tracy Wolfson of CBS Sports reports that...

Getty Images Two planes are taking the Patriots to Kansas City for Monday night’s game against the Chiefs, but running back Sony Michel isn’t on either one of them. The Patriots announced that Michel, who leads the team with 173 rushing yards, has been downgraded to out for the contest. He was...

Getty Images After extended success as it relates to the pandemic, the triple-bogey arrived last week for the NFL, with the Tennessee outbreak and the Patriots/Chiefs postponement over a positive result on each team and the Saints’ Saturday night close call. On Monday, the league will convene...

Getty Images The Patriots possibly have avoided an outbreak. Possibly. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Sunday testing of Patriots players has resulted in no positive samples. Saturday testing likewise consisted exclusively of negatives. But the Patriots aren’t out of the woods. The...

Getty Images The NFL will have two Monday night games this week. After the Patriots’ game at Kansas City was delayed following Cam Newton‘s positive test for COVID-19, the league decided to have the Patriots and Chiefs kick off on Monday night at 7 p.m. ET. The game will stay on CBS. The...

Getty Images Assuming that all point-of-care and off-site PCR tests continue to be negative for the Patriots (and for the Chiefs, who also have a quarterback who recently tested positive but no one seems to care), the Patriots will fly to and from Missouri tomorrow for a Monday night game...

Getty Images Both the Patriots and the Chiefs have had a quarterback test positive over the weekend, sparking a postponement of their game to Monday. Whether the game is played hinges on New England and Kansas City personnel testing negative into Monday. Per a source with knowledge of the...

Getty Images The NFL’s experience with COVID-19 unfolded, as one source explained it to PFT late Saturday, like an average golfer who somehow managed to finagle a par on each of he first three holes of the course. Despite the early success, a triple-bogey was always inevitable. The...

Getty Images All teams have played three games. At least two teams won’t play at all in Week Four. Four more teams may not play in Week Four. The pandemic suddenly has affected pro football in a major way, and there’s no reason to think it will get any better, especially with flu season...

Getty Images Some within league circles have wondered aloud why the Patriots caught a break from the NFL, with the news that starting quarterback Cam Newton tested positive for COVID-19 resulting in a postponement of Sunday’s game against the Chiefs — a game in which the Pats were a seven-point...

Getty Images Multiple reports indicate that Patriots quarterback Cam Newton has tested positive for COVID-19. The Patriots, without naming Newton, have confirmed that one of the team’s players has tested positive. “Late last night, we received notice that a Patriots player tested positive for...

Getty Images If the Titans hadn’t been generating a daily stream of positive COVID-19 tests, the NFL possibly would proceed with Sunday’s Patriots-Chiefs game, with quarterback Cam Newton treated no differently than any other injured player. Post-Titans, the analysis changes. Even with daily...

Getty Images With Patriots quarterback Cam Newton testing positive for COVID-19, the Patriots need to watch and wait for additional positive tests. Meanwhile, they’re due to play the Chiefs on Sunday. According to Field Yates of ESPN.com, the current “expectation” is that the Patriots-Chiefs...

Getty Images The Patriots and Chiefs will not be playing at 4:25 p.m. ET on Sunday. The NFL announced in a statement on Saturday that the game will be postponed to Monday or Tuesday due to “positive COVID-19 tests on both teams.” Patriots quarterback Cam Newton has tested positive and NFL...

Getty Images Quarterback Jordan Ta’amu, one of the stars during the short-lived XFL 2.0 2020 season, is on the Kansas City practice squad. According to NFL Media, he’s also now on the COVID-19 reserve list. Ta’amu’s positive test result makes it even more appropriate to postpone Sunday’s...

Getty Images Week Four of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Broncos and it continues with 13 more games on Sunday, which means that the 26 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images The annual MVP race has certain basic realities. First, we care about it a lot more during the season than when the season ends. Second, it’s not relevant until the season ends. Third, where the teams finish in the standings when the season ends has a huge impact on who wins. (For...

Getty Images The Patriots got one of the best bargains in football history when signing former MVP Cam Newton to a low-dollar deal. The bargain extends well beyond his on-field abilities. “Cam does a great job of connecting with everybody, whether it’s his teammates, his receivers, guys on...