NFL COVID-19 Reserve List Reduced to Four
And then there were four.
After a day (Friday) in which no players were placed on reserve/COVID-19 and none were activated, Saturday saw the number of players on reserve reduced to four.
It was another day with no players placed on reserve, while one was activated: Tennessee linebacker Josh Smith, who was then placed on waivers.
The four on reserve are Cincinnati wide receiver John Ross (11 days missed); Jacksonville tackle Ryan Pope (26); Miami cornerback Xavien Howard (12) and N.Y. Jets cornerback Bryce Hall (26).
Ross, who left the team for the Los Angeles area to be with his son and his mother, who had both tested positive, is reportedly rejoining the team. However, he will have to test negative for the virus twice before being cleared to practice.
In the last 16 days, just 10 players have been placed on reserve while 55 were activated. The 111 total players on the COVID list have spent a cumulative total of 1,029 days on reserve. Nine players were waived after being activated.
The four players currently on reserve have been on the list for 75 days (18.8 average).
On other injury-related lists:
*49 players have been placed on active/PUP with 26 passing a physical, two waived and one placed on reserve/PUP.
*31 players were placed on active/NFI, 18 passed physicals and one was waived.
*Nine were placed on active/non-football illness with seven passing physicals, one of whom was then waived and one, Cardinals tackle Marcus Gilbert, opted out.
Here is a team-by-team look through Thursday based on what has been reported officially to the league office:
Arizona: 1 opt-out, 2 illnesses (both passed physicals)
Atlanta: 7 COVID-19 (all activated); 1 illness (passed physical)
Baltimore: 2 opt-outs, 1 COVID-19 (activated), 1 PUP (activated), 1 NFI
Buffalo: 2 opt-outs, 5 COVID-19 (all activated), 1 PUP, 1 NFI (passed physical)
Carolina: 2 opt-outs, 1 PUP (passed physical), 1 illness (passed physical)
Chicago: 2 opt-outs, 3 COVID-19 (all activated)
Cincinnati: 2 opt-outs, 2 COVID-19 (1 activated), 3 PUP (2 passed physicals), 4 NFI (2 passed physicals)
Cleveland: 5 opt-outs, 5 COVID-19 (all activated), 3 PUP (all activated), 1 NFI (activated)
Dallas: 3 opt-outs, 2 COVID-19 (both activated), 2 PUP (both passed physical)
Denver: 2 opt-outs, 1 COVID-19 (activated), 1 PUP (passed physical), 1 NFI (passed physical)
Detroit: 3 opt-outs, 8 COVID-19 (all activated), 1 PUP, 1 NFI (passed physical)
Green Bay: 1 opt-out, 5 COVID-19 (all activated), 3 PUP, 2 NFI
Houston: 1 opt-out, 2 PUP (both activated), 1 NFI (activated)
Indianapolis: 3 opt-outs, 2 COVID-19 (both activated, 1 then waived), 3 PUP (1 passed physical, 1 waived), 2 NFI (1 passed physical)
Jacksonville: 3 opt-outs, 12 COVID-19 (11 activated), 2 PUP (both passed physicals), 1 NFI (passed physical), 1 NFIllness
Kansas City: 3 opt-outs, 1 COVID-19 (activated, then waived), 2 PUP (1 activated), 1 NFI (activated)
Las Vegas: 3 opt-outs, 3 COVID-19 (all activated), 1 PUP, 1 illness (passed physical, then waived)
L.A. Chargers: 1 NFI, 1 illness (passed physical)
L.A. Rams: 1 opt-out, 2 COVID-19 (both activated), 1 NFI
Miami: 2 opt-outs, 17 COVID-19 (1 on twice, 16 activated/1 waived), 1 NFI (passed physical)
Minnesota: 1 opt-out, 9 COVID-19 (all activated, 2 subsequently waived, one with non-football illness), 1 PUP, 2 NFI (passed physicals)
New England: 8 opt-outs, 4 PUP (1 passed physical)
New Orleans: 2 opt-outs, 3 COVID-19 (all activated), 2 PUP (1 passed physical)
N.Y. Giants: 3 opt-outs, 2 COVID-19 (both activated), 2 NFI (both passed physicals), 1 illness (passed physical)
N.Y. Jets: 3 opt-outs, 4 COVID-19 (3 activated/1 waived), 3 PUP (2 passed physicals), 1 NFI (passed physical)
Philadelphia: 1 opt-out, 3 COVID-19 (all activated), 2 PUP
Pittsburgh: 4 COVID-19 (all activated, 1 then waived)
San Francisco: 3 opt-outs, 2 COVID-19 (both activated, 1 on NFI), 5 PUP (2 passed physicals), 3 NFI
Seattle: 1 opt-out, 1 COVID-19 (activated), 1 PUP, 3 NFI (1 waived)
Tampa Bay: 1 opt-out, 3 COVID-19 (all activated), 1 PUP
Tennessee: 1 opt-out, 3 COVID-19 (2 activated, 1 waived), 2 PUP (both passed physicals)
Washington: 2 opt-outs, 1 COVID-19 (activated), 2 PUP (both passed physicals), 1 NFI
