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Report: Matthew Stafford’s thumb injury doesn’t present ‘much concern going forward’

Updating Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford’s injured thumb.

After a rough sack — where the Washington Football Team was flagged for a penalty — Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford injured his right thumb (his throwing hand) and required it to be taped for the remainder of the game.

Post-game Stafford acknowledged the injury and said he was planning on getting X-rays that night to examine the extent of the damage. This morning, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport is reporting optimistic news.

A “source said there was not much concern going forward,” Rapoport tweeted. “X-Rays negative. Though he may be limited some this week, the initial belief is he won’t miss game time. Stafford will have some more tests today to make sure there is no structural damage. But the early vibe is optimistic.”

Bottom line, expected Stafford to be limited this week in practice and he will surely show up on the injury report, but he is on track to play this Sunday.

Pete Carroll pleased with Seahawks’ daily COVID-19 testing over bye

The Seahawks players underwent daily COVID-19 testing over their bye week and coach Pete Carroll is pleased with how the process played out.

The Seattle Seahawks just wrapped up their Week-6 bye giving the players a week to relax and recover before heading back to the practice field. And although the players had the time off, they couldn’t go far, as they were required to report to the Virginia Mason Athletic Center each morning for daily COVID-19 testing.

Coach Pete Carroll was happy to report he was pleased with the success of the testing process throughout the bye.

“First off, we tested all week long,” Carroll told reporters after Monday’s bonus practice. “And we stayed on the regime of daily testing and all that worked out just exactly like we would have hoped. That means everyone continued to do right . . . everybody did a great job – coaches and administration as well as the players.”

Carroll did caution that it won’t be until the results of this week’s testing that everyone will know how things truly went over the bye week due to the lag time.

“Everybody is really tuned in,” Carroll continued. “And that discipline that it continues to take to do that is what is going to carry us through as long as we can stay diligent about it as we keep talking about.”

Carroll says as the rules change, he and the team need to keep flexible and learn as they go.

The Seahawks have Tuesday off but return for the week on Wednesday.

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Game on: Saints’ player’s original sample retested and confirmed negative

The Detroit Lions versus New Orleans Saints game will be played at it’s scheduled time as Michael Burton’s original sample was retested and confirmed negative.

The Detroit Lions versus New Orleans Saints game will be played at it’s originally scheduled time as Michael Burton’s original sample was retested and confirmed negative, per multiple reports.

If you missed the drama throughout the night, here’s a quick recap.

The Saints’ players and staff were tested on Friday per usual and after their results came back negative on Saturday morning and they were cleared to fly to Detroit. Before departing New Orleans, they once again went through the testing process to clear everyone for Sunday’s game. When those results came in, Burton was flagged with a positive result.

Once the positive result came in, the Saints did contact tracing and identified four other players that needed testing, and a rapid-tests were administered. Burton’s original sample was also retested and all tests came back negative.

Ironically, it was Matthew Stafford’s false-positive test result from training camp, and the Lions’ protest over testing standards at the time, that forced the NFL and NFLPA to change the testing procedures to rule out future false-positives, like Burton’s.

In the end, the game will be played at 1:00 pm EST, as previously scheduled. Stay tuned to Lions Wire for all your pre-game articles.

NCAA chief medical officer gives negative outlook on fall college football

Given Hainline’s comments, football in the fall feels like an unlikely outcome.

In an appearance on CNN early Sunday morning, NCAA chief medical officer Brian Hainline gave a grim summary of the challenges facing college sports. Namely, that resource limitations currently keep college sports hanging in the balance.

Here are some highlights of what Hainline said about the season during his slot.

  • “The pathway to play sports is so exceedingly narrow right now. Everything would have to line up perfectly.”
  • “If testing stays as it is, there’s no way we could go forward with sports.”
  • Added the greater risk is regular students resocializing on campuses. Says that could be “the downfall” if schools can’t handle that.

Of primary concern to Hainline and other NCAA medical experts is the prospect of students returning to campus in the coming weeks. The SEC, Big 12 and ACC are all currently planning on having football in the fall, though more spikes like the ones at Notre Dame and North Carolina could jeopardize that.

Unlike the other two leagues, the SEC delayed the beginning of its season until Sep. 26, presumably to allow league officials to gauge how students’ return to campus affects the situation.

But given Hainline’s comments, football in the fall feels like an unlikely outcome.

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Seahawks activate John Ursua off NFL’s Reserve/COVID-19 list

The Seattle Seahawks have activated wide receiver John Ursua off the NFL’s COVID-19/Reserve list after he received two negative results.

After testing negative for COVID-19 twice following an initial positive test result, Seattle Seahawks wide receiver John Ursua has been activated off the NFL’s COVID-19/Reserve list. He was able to participate in practice with his teammates on Wednesday.

The league requires at least two negative results, so Ursua can participate in team activities once again. His first test may have been a false positive, as he reported himself.

Although Ursua rejoins a wide receiver room with stars Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf, he has a chance to work his way up behind them. He already flashed potential in last year’s preseason and made a clutch conversion in the final game of that regular season.

However, numerous players around the league are heading into the 2020 season with apprehension, including Lockett. An increasing number of players are being put on the reserve list due to contracting COVID-19, although the Seahawks have managed to play it safe so far. At this point, we can only watch the events leading up to the season play out.

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Seahawk John Ursua tests negative day after placed on Reserve/COVID-19 list

Wide receiver John Ursua, the first Seahawk to be placed on the Reserve/COVID-19 list, has now tested negative the following day.

Wide receiver John Ursua was the first, and so far the only, Seattle Seahawk to test positive for the coronavirus over the first two weeks of training camp. On Sunday, he was placed on the NFL’s Reserve/COVID-19 list.

Just one day later, he was able to provide some very good news . . . his second test was negative and he now awaits a third before he can resume team activities.

“It’s been a crazy experience, kind of a roller coaster if you may, where I get the news late (Saturday) night that I tested positive,” Ursua told KHON2 sports director Rob DeMello. “I’m kind of concerned thinking that I’m going to be quarantined for the next 12 to 14 days and then come yesterday’s test results come back and it’s negative.”

Per DeMello, Ursua first discovered he was positive around midnight early Sunday morning. Later that day he took his second test and received the negative results on Monday. He remains in isolation following the results of his third – and hopefully final – test in the sequence before he can rejoin his Seahawks teammates.

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Gators News: July 28, 2020

It has not been a great first week for the league and if things don’t shape up soon, we could very well see baseball shut back down again. 

As we wade deeper into another week the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic are becoming murkier and murkier as Major League Baseball battles through the first significant test of its restarted season.

The news coming out of the weekend was that multiple members of the Miami Marlins baseball squad, including both players and staff, tested positive for the novel coronavirus yet still took the field against the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, only to have its next two games canceled.

The good news is that so far, no member of the Phillies’ club has tested positive… yet. The bad news is that there has not been a sufficient incubation period for the virus to show up for contact over the past couple of days, making the results a bit less encouraging. Additionally, four more Marlins tested positive over the past 24 hours, bringing the grand total to 17 among Miami’s baseball personnel.

The word from the nation’s top infection disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci? This outbreak could spell doom for the MLB season, but does not necessarily mean the games must be stopped now.

“This could put it in danger. I don’t believe they need to stop, but we just need to follow this and see what happens with other teams on a day-by-day basis.”

It has not been a great first week for the league and if things don’t shape up soon, we could very well see baseball shut back down again.

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