The Packers held out hope as late as Wednesday that Lazard could be cleared to play before the NFL officially ruled him out in a phone call to the team, ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reported. Lazard, who is unvaccinated, and his agent, Peter Schaffer, made a case to the league that Lazard was not a close contact to Adams and thus had no chance of COVID transmission. Lazard was negative on five straight days of rapid and PCR testing. He also argued that his five-day quarantine period should have started Saturday instead of Sunday.
The NFL didn't budge on all that, and now Lazard could be cleared as early as Friday, one day too late. Although the Packers weren't sure whether Adams would have been available for a typical Sunday game, Lazard most likely would have.
So let me get this straight. Lazard wasn't actually a close contact to Adams, tested negative for 5 days in a row and will likely be "cleared" a day later. Yet, the NFL clearly wanted to make an example out of him, because he's MUH UNVAXXERNATED~! The dude is fine and was clearly fine after the first negative test. #Dictatorlogic
