The Patriots produced another positive COVID-19 test Sunday morning, according to multiple reports.
Their Monday night kickoff against the Broncos has been postponed to next Sunday, per ESPN, when the Pats were scheduled to be on their bye week.
The positive test surfaced from a round of tests taken Saturday, when the Pats returned to their facility after coach Bill Belichick shut it down for three straight days. The test is from a player, according to Sports Illustrated.
The NFL closed Gillette Stadium down Sunday after the latest positive test, the team’s fourth in the past eight days. Stephon Gilmore was the third Patriot to test positive late Tuesday night, meaning it’s possible he infected a teammate during the team’s trip to Kansas City on Monday. The typical incubation period for COVID-19 is four to five days.
On that trip, dozens of Pats shared close contact with Gilmore, who tested positive less than 24 hours after the team returned to New England. The All-Pro cornerback shared two plane rides, several bus rides, a playing field, and a hotel with teammates and coaches. Gilmore has since been in isolation, like the other Patriots who have been placed on the team’s COVID-19 reserve list: quarterback Cam Newton and practice-squad defensive lineman Bill Murray.
The Patriots’ first positive test surfaced eight days ago with Newton. After Newton tested positive late Friday, Oct. 2, the NFL postponed the Pats’ upcoming road game at the Chiefs by one day. Players and coaches took two planes to Kansas City that Monday morning and returned early Tuesday morning after a 26-10 loss.
For the first time since that game, Pats players met with reporters Saturday via video conference. Cornerback Jason McCourty voiced significant displeasure and distrust with the NFL and NFLPA after how they handled the team’s trip to Kansas City and Gilmore’s ensuing positive test.
“Between the players, the coaches, the administration, the staff, it is up to us to take care of one another, to make sure physically we are all set, make sure mentally. Because I think outside of here, the people that don’t have to walk in our building — whether it is the league office, whether it is the NFLPA — they don’t care,” McCourty said.
“We’re trying to get games played and we’re trying to get the season going. For them, it is not about our best interest, or our health and safety,” McCourty went on. “It is about what can we make protocol-wise that sounds good, looks good and how can we go out there and play games. I think what I kind of learned personally throughout this situation is it is going to be up to us as individuals in this building to just really take care of one another.”
On Sunday morning, after the fourth positive test was announced, several Pats players reacted on social media.
Left tackle Isaiah Wynn tweeted: “Caught Up in the Rapture.” The McCourty twins tweeted a picture with an inscribed Bible verse: “For we talk by faith, not by sight.”
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