The Las Vegas Raiders were fined $ 500,000, trainer Jon Gruden was fined $ 150,000, and the franchise was fined $ 150,000 in late October for violating COVID-19 regulations related to the offensive attack Trent Brown’s positive test released from round six in late October. according to Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports.
The escalated fines and loss of a draft pick are the result of the Raiders being a repeat offender of the NFL’s COVID-19 policy. In Week 2, Gruden was fined $ 100,000 by the league for not wearing adequate face covering when the team beat the Saints. The raiders were fined an additional $ 250,000.
Las Vegas has now lost more than $ 1.2 million in fines related to NFL COVID. according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network. The Raiders were fined $ 350,000 for a mask violation, $ 165,000 for players without a mask in a fundraiser, $ 50,000 for an unauthorized locker room visitor, and $ 650,000 for Brown’s situation.
Brown was hospitalized after suffering an IV mishap ahead of the Raiders’ 16-6 win over the Browns last Sunday. Brown, who was rushed to a hospital before the game started, had air in his bloodstream and needed immediate medical attention. according to Ian Rappoport and Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network. Brown, who was recently removed from the team’s reserve COVID-19 list, tested positive for the virus less than three weeks ago.
“We’re just going to say that he got sick here in the locker room and is being examined,” Gruden said of Brown after the game on ESPN’s Paul Gutierrez. “We’ll update you as soon as we know something. But I was told everything was fine. We expected Trent to play today; he had great practice on Friday.”
Raiders quarterback Derek Carr described what it was like to get Brown to the hospital before kick-off.
“All of a sudden we come in and they roll him out and I ask, ‘Bro, what’s up?’ It was crazy and so we prayed, “said Carr. “As a team, we prayed for him and made sure he was fine, his family, because I’m sure they were scared to death.”
“We could be writing a pretty good book here in just seven years,” added Carr. “Some crazy things happened. And one of those things happened today.”
Prior to Thursday night’s fine, the Titans had the league’s highest COVID-19 fine when they docked with the league at $ 350,000 last month after Tennessee tested a total of 24 members of the organization positive for the virus.
