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AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com has his eye on the NFL’s vaccination rate – and he hypothesizes that those who still resist are almost exclusively starting level players: Rosters have dropped to 53, and vaccination rates reportedly have not.   Via Mark Maske of the Washington Post, the vaccination “has remained…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing This from the AP: NFL players can wear social justice messages on their helmets again this season and “It Takes All of Us” and “End Racism” will be stenciled in end zones for the second straight year as part of the league’s Inspire Change platform.   The league will also…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The consensus of the pro-Vax media is not that Jaguars coach Urban Meyer may have denied deserving players a job because of their anti-vax principles, but that he truthfully said anything about it.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: Officially, NFL teams are not supposed to hold a player’s vaccination status…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The vast majority of NFL players, those vaccinated, will be tested once a week now, not every two weeks.  Coach Bruce Arians of the Buccaneers is unimpressed with the change of policy.  Jenna Laine of ESPN.com: Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said Sunday that despite his team’s recent uptick…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing This is interesting – more than 3,000 college football players this fall are playing as graduate students. The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame today released a list of 3,284 student-athletes who have already earned their undergraduate degrees and will be playing college football this fall while…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing An update on the NFL and its state of COVID reaction from Chase Goodbread ofNFL.com as the NFL pushes with the NFLPA for a vaccine mandate: The NFL has reached a vaccination rate of nearly 93 percent among its players and above 99 percent among staff members, according to NFL…