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Covid-19 Protocols For Ncaa Football And The Nfl: Does Collective Bargaining Produce Safer Conditions For Players?, Michael H. Leroy
Covid-19 Protocols For Ncaa Football And The Nfl: Does Collective Bargaining Produce Safer Conditions For Players?, Michael H. Leroy
Utah Law Review
My study surveyed all NCAA football programs in Power 5 conferences during the 2020 season to compare their COVID-19 safety protocols to those in the NFL-NFLPA labor agreement. College protocols lacked input from a players association. In contrast, the NFL and their players collectively bargained a seventy-two-page agreement for COVID- 19 protocols. Policies from nineteen college football programs fell far short of NFL-NFLPA standards, scoring ten to thirty points out of the forty-five safety points in the NFL labor agreement. College policies were strongest for symptom checking and cardiac evaluations. However, most college policies failed to identify players with individual …