Sources: NFL eyes Raiders’ locker room entry

After every week in which Jon Gruden and the Las Vegas Raiders received heavy fines for violating sideline coronavirus protocols, the crew is now below an NFL investigation for one other protocol-connected violation — allowing unauthorized locker room entry, league sources suggested ESPN.

The alleged violation took place after Monday evening’s consume over the Original Orleans Saints, when an unauthorized crew employee entered the Raiders’ locker room without the credentials to scheme so, fixed with sources.

The league, with the wait on of state and federal committees to boot because the NFLPA, has established strict thresholds concerning entry — intended to curb and prevent the unfold of COVID-19.

This season, supreme 40 workers in every group are allowed to be within the locker room, in accordance with the NFL coverage dispensed to all teams. Workers allowed within the locker room, excluding the avid gamers, are the teaching workers, the athletic coaching workers, the tools workers, the total supervisor, one member of crew safety and one member of the crew’s public relatives/communications department.

The league believes there is evidence that a noncredentialed person eluded the safety checkpoints to enter the Raiders’ locker room Monday evening, fixed with sources, and is now closely discovering out the incident and figuring out whether discipline is warranted.

The NFL will continue to implement this limitation and might perchance impose discipline for violations, fixed with a source.

The NFL already fined Gruden $100,000 and the Raiders $250,000 because Gruden become once no longer consistently carrying his cowl whereas on the sideline Monday evening. Gruden, when asked after the game why he wasn’t consistently carrying his cowl, spoke back that he become once “doing my supreme.”

“I’ve had the virus,” Gruden said. “I am doing my supreme. I am very delicate about it. … I am calling plays. I gorgeous must bid in these scenarios, and if I rating fined, I will must pay the fine. Nonetheless I am very delicate about that, and I dispute regret.”