NFL player's association president J.C. Tretter called out the NFL on Tuesday for only testing vaccinated players for COVID-19 weekly and for its decision to put an emphasis on taunting. Tretter also says the NFLPA did not want this change and is calling for its removal.
"Despite our vaccination rates being extremely high, we have seen that the delta variant can infect and spread among vaccinated people," Tretter wrote. "That means, at the moment, we are in a worse spot this year than last year because the NFL has backed off a key component of our previous success: daily testing.