Two Michigan Football Players Test Positive For Coronavirus
It was revealed on Thursday that two Michigan Wolverines football players have tested positive for coronavirus, though their names were not revealed.
Neither of them showed any symptoms per U-M Athletics head physician Dr. Sami Rifat, however, and none of the Maize and Blue football coaches have tested positive for it.
Michigan football and men's and women's basketball student-athletes began returning to campus over the weekend for the start of voluntary workouts, and a total of 221 of them have been tested.
Several of the team's freshmen football players (offensive lineman Zak Zinter and linebacker Kalel Mullings, just to name a few) triumphantly tweeted about their returns to campus on Sunday, expressing their excitement to be back in Ann Arbor.
Rifat also noted that all student-athletes have been and will be tested upon their arrival, and the fact that two of the 221 student-athletes tested positive meant the numbers "were as expected."
The NCAA voted yesterday, meanwhile, to approve a plan that outlines the regulations for football athletes on campuses to get the sport moving in the right direction again.
Players who are scheduled to play their first game on Sept. 5 may now be mandated to take part in as many as eight hours of weight training, conditioning and film review per week from July 13-23.
Following that first first step, athletes may then be required to participate in as many as 20 hours of athletic-related activities per week from July 24-Aug. 6.
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