This was bound to happen.
When schools began opening up their campuses for voluntary football workouts, positive tests of the novel coronavirus were sure to follow.
Early on, Alabama has been hit the hardest, with at least five players testing positive, 247Sports.com reported. The names of those players were not known, and it is uncertain if they were showing symptoms.
The workouts were set to begin on Monday, after the SEC announced in May all teams were able to do so. Under the conference’s guidelines, players had to be tested within 72 hours of entering the facilities and daily after activities begin. Student-athletes who test positive would be isolated immediately.
Alabama, of course, isn’t alone. Three Oklahoma State players have tested positive – they were asymptomatic — leading the school to tell freshmen not to report this week, and a member of the Iowa State athletic department was also a positive case.