As Major League Baseball fans wonder if the season can continue after a dozen Miami Marlins players test positive for coronavirus, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman said Monday that he didn’t think the NFL would cancel the season if something similar happened.
Sherman said in an interview with Pro Football Focus that he believes the next man will come in to replace anyone who contracted the disease.
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“I don’t see the league saying, ‘Hey, we’re gonna close if 10 people get it, 15 people get it, 50 people get it,'” Sherman said. “I see them say, ‘Hey, delete these people, replace them with new people and continue the game. ‘
“If half a team gets it, lose the game and the next game keeps moving forward. This is how I see them ending.
He predicted that if a team had an outbreak they would ‘lose the game’ and quarantine those people unless the teams could find replacements. He understood that the 2020 season might not be the best game since training camps and preseason games were cut.
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“It won’t be the best football,” Sherman told Pro Football Focus. “It’s going to be a year where you will see high interception numbers, high injury numbers. … The league still does not know how the training will go and we are about to return.
Sherman criticized the NFL’s safety guidelines for the upcoming season, tweeting earlier this month: “The NFL has ignored the safety recommendations of the experts they’ve hired. We all love this game and want to go out and compete with our brothers. The NFL must provide us with a safe working environment to achieve this.
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The league and the players’ union have since agreed to test protocols before training camp.
