Why it matters to the NFL if Aaron Rodgers is vaccinated

Vaccinated oregon unvaccinated — it's a cardinal question for Green Back Packers QB Aaron Rodgers due to the fact that it volition find the timeline connected erstwhile helium tin play again.

ESPN is reporting the NFL considered Rodgers unvaccinated. NFL.com says Rogers received "homeopathic treatment" from his doc to rise his antibodies. He reportedly asked the NFL for an exemption to vaccination, but it was denied by the league and NFL Player's Association.

Packers caput manager Matt LaFleur said helium recovered retired Wednesday greeting that Rodgers was successful the NFL's COVID-19 protocol, meaning helium won't play Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs.

As to Rodgers' vaccination status, LeFleur chose not to comment.

"I'm not going to get into immoderate of our coaches' oregon players' vaccination status," Lafleur said.

But successful August, erstwhile reporters asked Rodgers if helium had gotten his shots, the backmost said helium had been "immunized."

"Yeah, I've been immunized," Rodgers said during the preseason. "You know, there's a batch of speech astir it astir the league and a batch of guys who person made statements and not made statements, owners who person made statements. You know, there's guys connected the squad that haven't been vaccinated. I deliberation it's a idiosyncratic decision. I'm not going to justice those guys."

Here's wherefore it matters. The NFL's COVID-19 protocol says that if an unvaccinated subordinate oregon manager tests positive, they volition beryllium isolated for astatine slightest 10 days and volition past beryllium permitted to instrumentality to work if asymptomatic.

That's antithetic than vaccinated players and staff. The affirmative idiosyncratic volition beryllium permitted to instrumentality to work aft 2 antagonistic tests taken astatine slightest 24 hours apart.

If Rodger is unvaccinated, helium wouldn't beryllium eligible to instrumentality to squad activities until astatine slightest Nov. 13 — putting his presumption successful jeopardy for the Packers' crippled against the Seattle Seahawks connected Nov. 14.

Again, backmost successful August, Rodgers talked astir what interaction the COVID-19 argumentation could person connected the season.

"There's guys that person been vaccinated that person contracted COVID, truthful it's an absorbing contented that I deliberation we're going to spot played retired the full season," Rodgers said.

This communicative was primitively published by Charles Benson connected Scripps presumption TMJ4 successful Milwaukee.