As long as you’re asymptomatic, you can return to your team in as little as five days following a COVID-19 positive test under a new agreement announced by the NFL and NFLPA. This puts the league in line with new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control released this week.
The new rules apply for both vaccinated and unvaccinated players and a doctor needs to sign off on the return.
The previous time frame was ten days of isolation. That’s been altered to five days of isolation plus five days of required masking, again regardless of vaccination status.