Rams center Brian Allen tested positive for COVID-19 three weeks ago and again last week, FOX Sports’ Jay Glazer reported Wednesday night. The Rams confirmed the news, and coach Sean McVay said Allen is “felling good, feeling healthy and he’s on the road to recovery.”
The first symptom Allen felt was the loss of smell and taste. He also felt very fatigued, and it didn’t feel like the traditional flu.
“I couldn’t smell anything,'” Allen told Glazer. “‘I lost all sense of smell to the point where I had smelling salts here, I cracked them open, put them to my nose and nothing happened. All I could feel was texture in my mouth – literally, it was the only sense I had. Then I got periodic sore throats. I got really fatigued, my throat would start burning, everything felt different than every other flu I’ve had.”
McVay and GM Les Snead were asked recently if any players or members of the Rams’ staff were impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, but they declined to get into the details out of respect for their privacy.
McVay told Glazer that Allen notified the team early on so no one else from the organization was exposed.
“He (Allen) did a great job of letting us know right away so we could be timely in our response in making sure we didn’t expose anybody else to that,” McVay said.