There has been much discussion that COVID-19 can lead to a heart condition known as myocarditis.
The disease has surfaced in an NFL player as Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott said Monday tight end Tommy Sweeney is out for the rest of the season with myocarditis.
Bills TE Tommy Sweeney has myocarditis and will miss the remainder of the season.
Sean McDermott says as far as he knows, that's a condition connected to COVID-19
— Marcel Louis-Jacques (@Marcel_LJ) November 23, 2020
Sweeney was placed on the COVID-19 reserve list Oct. 24.
Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle that can affect the heart’s ability to pump and cause rapid or abnormal heart rhythms.
The 25-year-old Sweeney was a seventh-round pick of the Bills out of Boston College last year.
Sweeney had eight catches in 2019.