Four total Cowboys and Texans have tested positive

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The report suggested a much larger number. The truth is that, for now, only a handle of Cowboys and Texans have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Per a league source, two Cowboys and two Texans have tested positive. That’s four in all.

The number, of course, could increase. According to the source, one of the Texans players attended George Floyd’s funeral last week — along with a sizable delegation from the organization.

And the numbers likely will increase once teams are together again, practicing and playing games. Absent the kind of testing that quickly and reliably provides accurate results on a daily basis, the virus could quickly sweep through a team and, potentially, shut down the league.

29 responses to “Four total Cowboys and Texans have tested positive

  1. Lets get everyone healthy and try to play again in 2021, this virus is way too contagious!

    Stay healthy my friends!

  2. Methinks the XFL could return as a practice squad/emergency list of players for the NFL this season.

  3. No way does college or pro football play in 2020. We will see both in the fall of 2021. Sorry to be Debbie Downer but that’s the way it’s going to be.

  4. Unpopular Opinion: Players are young and so far non-symptomatic, so let everyone get together now, and grow immunity in two weeks.

  5. It will be a logistical nightmare trying to quarantine infected players and finding replacements through a season. I think the rush to get back to normal ignores the fact the virus is not on the decline but actually increasing in some areas. We all need to accept the fact that getting back to anywhere near normal requires a vaccine and when that happens is anyone’s guess…

  6. Only 4 people? That’s no big deal. Especially with CDC now saying it is far less deadly than previously thought, and similar to the flu for people under 60.

  7. Wanna know how else numbers increase? By gathering around 50 thousand randoms and protesting

  8. Unfortunately, there is not going to be a season this year. This virus is just too contagious and, for some people, too deadly. Historically, pandemics are more lethal in the second wave and, as we let our guard down, that is going to be our sad fate. As a Skins fan, wishing a full and complete recovery to those infected Cowboys and everyone else afflicted with the virus.

  9. Multiple players on two NFL teams, and they haven’t even gathered to practice yet, much less play games. University of Houston suspended their workouts last week after six players tested positive.

    Most of us love sports, or we wouldn’t be coming to read stories on a sports site. But, I have trouble believing this won’t be a big mess trying to get sports going this season. So, if this were the regular season and these players test positive, do just those players quarantine for two weeks, or would the entire team have to quarantine, and forfeit games for two weeks? How many extra players would each team need to have in order to be able to roll out enough for a team every week?

  10. Once the players recover they need to donate their plasma for antibodies, which can be used to treat others.

  11. This is the ultimate example of players/coaches safety being put in jeopardy! I dont see how they can have a season with a pandemic going on. All lives matter and are more important then football or any other sport.

  12. all the clips i see of the ball players. social distancing isnt happening . who would have guess that ??

  13. First, we were to stay scared in our homes and never come out until this scary virus goes away. Then, in an instant, we needed to rally in mass protests. And now bad virus is back.

    Enjoy the madness…

  14. Sounds like a new injury report classification will be needed. Along with Out-knee, Out-concussion, Out-hamstring will be Out-COVID.

  15. The NFL doesnt care. They have 15 Billion reasons to move forward with the season. They may start but can they finish? The virus will cause roosters to be churned weekly. How many replacement players will be available? What will the rosters look like for the playoffs? Man, Vegas is gonna go crazy!

  16. 4 tested positive 4 asymptomatic…with increased testing we r seeing increase in positives but with no increase in mortality so the virus is way less deadly than initially thought no more than the common flu. Self quarentine if u r high risk otherwise life as normal for everyone else .

  17. I wouldn’t be surprised if those positive tests were a result of tracing efforts, remember the recent reports of UH players testing positive? Good likelihood of those Cougars practicing/associating with Texans and Cowboys players.

  18. I hope they all recover fully and, more importantly, haven’t given it to a compromised individual.

    As for the NFL, this is going to continue indefinitely. The nature of football is close contact, and there is no way to avoid it. If players aren’t using masks or social distancing in their private time, there is a pretty good chance they will bring the virus to work with them. The NFL will try their best to mitigate it, but it’s impossible. They will have to expand rosters by quite a bit if players have to quarantine for 14 days, and it’s sounding more and more like no fans will be allowed in the stands, which will hurt the owners and their bottom line.

    I think we should all slowly, painfully come to the realization there is a good chance there will be no team sports until a vaccine is available. And I am depressed.

  19. Cancel the season and let the players practice on the kneeling and us fans will practice seeing if we can live without football.

  20. Self quarentine if u r high risk otherwise life as normal for everyone else .

    The entire point of the lockdowns were to keep the health care system open. Even people with a high chance of recovery will go to the hospital if they are having trouble breathing. Going back to normal puts us back where this whole thing started; a surge of cases that will threaten to compromise the health care system. Then we get locked down again, which would be devastating for everyone.

    Or people can social distance and wear masks when they go to the store. Two very simple things that everyone can do to keep most things open.

  21. “Self quarentine if u r high risk otherwise life as normal for everyone else .”
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    The current “normal” is that we’re in a global pandemic. It cannot be ignored or wished away and people who insist on doing so are endangering themselves and everyone they come in contact with. Telling those who know the dangers and are socially responsible to just stay home is the kind of thinking that will keep COVID-19 around for a long time.

  22. “Unpopular Opinion: Players are young and so far non-symptomatic, so let everyone get together now, and grow immunity in two weeks.”

    What about the coaches? Many of them are old enough to be at great risk. And even some young people have had problems, including organ failure and lung damage.

    Why risk their health and lives for a game?

    I want them to play, but not if it destroys some of their health or lives.

    If everyone had listened in the beginning and isolated and wore masks, we’d be almost through this, but States like Florida and other states closed late and opened too early. This second wave may be far worse than the first.

    Over 120,000 dead Americans and that is only since the beginning of March…3.5 months.

  23. From a dead stop in February to 22 million tested to date. Not bad, America. Good on you.

  24. The season IS happening boys, there’s too much money on the line for them not to figure this all out. Love all the goofballs that pop up anytime someone is diagnosed with the “season not happening” nonsense. Good luck with that.

  25. The season IS happening boys, there’s too much money on the line for them not to figure this all out. Love all the goofballs that pop up anytime someone is diagnosed with the “season not happening” nonsense. Good luck with that.

    NBA and NHL seasons were cancelled, and we’ll see if their plans for a return pan out. Baseball can’t figure it out and may not play. Those institutions have lost billions of dollars due to this. The “too much money on the line” rhetoric that goofballs love to say really ignores all recent history when it comes to professional sports. The NFL is not immune to the pandemic, and they will experience the same logistical and financial issues every other league has faced. Good luck with that.

  26. The US is #28 in the number of tests per capita. Not very good. Testing will allow us to open many areas of the country while just keeping the hot zones closed.

  27. Guess that’s what happens when 60,000 people show up to protest rather than social distance, and multi-millionaire NFL players decide to join them.

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