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Matthew Stafford latest Lions player to land on COVID reserve list

On Saturday, the day players were finally allowed back into the practice facility, the Detroit Lions placed quarterback Matthew Stafford on the COVID-19 reserve list.

Stafford becomes the eighth Lions player to get the designation, which means he either tested positive or knowingly had been exposed to someone else who tested positive for the virus.

"You can't go anywhere, you can't do much, and we don't know what the season — if there is one — is going to look like," Stafford said during a video call with reporters in May. "Part of that is, you know, unsettling.