Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia confirmed at his morning press conference that the team will practice on Wednesday, and they are confident in the safety protocols in place in Allen Park despite Jarrad Davis being placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list yesterday.
Patricia confirmed that Davis was indeed the first Lions’ player who needed to be placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list since the regular season began and walked reporters through the timeline on what happened after they were alerted to Davis’ situation.
“(We) go look at the contact tracing, we have an interview process that we go through,” Patricia said. “We kind of just completely make sure that we understand the situation that we’re talking about, whatever that is, and then we run everything through the League. And we have great conversations with them as far as what are the risk factors and what does that look like, and then from there we go forward with what we think’s best for the team.”
Mark Maske of the Washington Post reported that the Lions were one of several teams this morning that had “no new positive test results”, and while Patricia continues to keep players COVID-19 results in-house — following NFL/NFLPA guidelines — he did note that: “Nobody would not be able to practice because of (Jarrad Davis)” on Wednesday.
So this appears to be an isolated situation surrounding Davis and the Lions feel confident they’re are keeping their players safe with the current protocols they have in place — which are continually being updated based on new information from the league.
This weekend’s game with the Minnesota Vikings does not appear to be in jeopardy at this time.