Document: Saints Going by Harsh Self-discipline for COVID Violation After Video Surfaces
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The NFL is taking a peek into extra violations of the COVID-19 health and safety protocols by the New Orleans Saints, in accordance to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport on Saturday.
The NFL obtained a video showing Alvin Kamara interacting with a particular person that isn’t indubitably employed by New Orleans on the crew facility. The particular person in inquire of later examined obvious for COVID-19.
Jeff Duncan of The Athletic reported Kamara created extra considerations when it came to contact tracing by his refusal to assign on the mandated contact tracing tool.
Pelissero and Rapoport wrote the punishment levied by the league “is liable to be the top but” on yarn of this represents the Saints’ third violation.
Kamara missed a Week 17 select over the Carolina Panthers after the crew positioned him on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Fellow running backs Latavius Murray and Dwayne Washington and fullback Michael Burton had been attributable to this truth positioned on the list as nicely.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported in September the NFL fined Saints head coach Sean Payton $100,000 for failing to nicely apply mask guidelines on the sideline. The Saints had been docked $250,000 too.
New Orleans obtained a $500,000 ravishing and forfeited a seventh-spherical draft buy in November after avid gamers renowned a Week 9 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers while maskless. The franchise had additionally staged a meeting in which the contributors weren’t nicely masked.
Pelissero and Rapoport wrote the Saints might maybe well well lose extra draft picks on yarn of the NFL’s most contemporary investigation.