Georgia football players test positive. All team activities are postponed for a 14 day quarantine period. As georgia football players come back to athens for recently allowed on campus workouts at least two sec schools grapple with positive tests among their returning athletes. Saturday the detroit lions reported their star quarterback former georgia football star matthew stafford tested positive for the coronavirus.
Four wilcox county football players and a coach tested positive for covid 19 causing the wilcox county board of education to suspend all middle school jv and varsity. The mccallie school football team has halted its contact practices after having at least 11 players test positive for covid 19. Nine ou football players tested positive for covid 19 after they returned from a six day break from preseason camp.
However in a revised report from the lions on tuesday the organization stated staffords test was a false positive and that he was removed from the nfls new reserve covid 19 list. Days after multiple football players at north paulding tested positive for the coronavirus. Florida had also previously announced that two non football student athletes had tested positive one in april and another that was an athlete out of state and away from campus.
Football players are the only athletes that will be on campus for workouts at first at georgia with a move toward having required organized team workouts with coaches sometime in july. Carrollton city schools reports that the five football players were.