With the NFL aiming to return to normalcy this season after a year heavily impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, league officials released a memo earlier this week outlining one crucial step on this path. Top-level team personnel faces a choice of either getting vaccinated, or losing player contact privileges.
Unless valid medical or religious reasons are presented, those within front offices, coaching and support staffs already in contact with a club’s players have to get the Coronavirus vaccine at one point in the near future. The NFL memo has to say the following about this (via NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero):
Tier 1 and 2 employees (other than players) should be expected to be vaccinated unless they have a bona fide medical or religious ground for not doing so.