TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury will miss Sunday’s recreation in opposition to the Cleveland Browns after testing optimistic for COVID-19, the crew introduced Friday evening.
Quarterbacks coach Cam Turner and defensive sort out Zach Allen additionally will miss the sport due to optimistic checks.
Defensive coordinator Vance Joseph and assistant head coach/particular groups coordinator Jeff Rodgers will share the head-coaching duties Sunday.
Kingsbury was at follow Friday. He additionally met with the media indoors within the morning, and was unmasked. The media, which needed to be vaccinated to attend, was all masked.
The crew hadn’t been notified as of Friday evening who will name the performs rather than Kingsbury.
The Cardinals are 100% vaccinated, Kingsbury had beforehand stated, however the crew has been coping with virus-related points this week.
It put outdoors linebacker Chandler Jones on the reserve/COVID-19 record, and he has but to come back off it, placing his standing for Sunday’s recreation unsure.
When discussing Jones’ optimistic check and the way COVID is affecting the Cardinals in 2021, Kingsbury stated then: “It is simply the way in which it goes. We have been totally vaccinated now for some time.”
NFC West chief Arizona is the NFL’s lone undefeated crew at 5-0.
Joseph has earlier head-coaching expertise, having led the Denver Broncos in 2017 and 2018.
Kingsbury, in the meantime, is not the primary head coach to overlook a recreation due to COVID.
Final season, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski missed a wild-card playoff recreation due to a optimistic check. Darrell Bevell additionally missed a recreation final season because the Detroit Lions‘ interim coach as a result of he was thought-about an in depth contact by means of COVID protocols. Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel examined optimistic for COVID-19 throughout coaching camp this yr, and former Philadelphia Eagles coach Doug Pederson examined optimistic in coaching camp final yr.
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