Unvaxxed Bills’ Player Cole Beasley Reportedly Fined Nearly $100K For COVID Violations

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Buffalo Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley, who remains vocally unvaccinated, has received fines that total up to almost $100,000 for violating the NFL’s COVID-19 policies. 

According to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, Beasley has been “fined multiple times of COVID protocol violations for a cumulative sum in the range of $100,000” according to sources within the league and players union.

He was charged $14,600 in August, when league officials tortured the Bill’s facility to reivew their execution of protocols, and that figure was “doubled on more than one occasion,” as the NFL’s video surveillance of the facility picked up more than one violation.

Beasley was placed on the team’s COVID-19 receive list for the first time last week, after testing positive for the virus on Tuesday. He blasted the league for making him miss ten days when only presenting with “mild symptoms” and feeling “fine” while recovering.

“Just to be clear Covid is not keeping me out of this game. The rules are. Vaxxed players are playing with Covid every week now because they don’t test,” he wrote on Instagram the same day.  

“One of my vaxxed teammates is in the hospital missing games. I’m sure he didn’t get this same energy. Everyone else, if you don’t get what’s happening then there is nothing anybody can do for you.” 

Beasley was forced to sit out week 16’s pivotal game against the New England Patriots, which the Bills won by 33-26 on Dec. 26 without him. He will still get paid for missing the game, which tied up the teams in the AFC East.

“Under NFL and NFLPA agreement, even unvaccinated players are entitled to their full pay if they miss a game due to Covid-19. Beasley makes $4.7 million in base salary, so he still gets his $261,111 game check,” Mortensen wrote.

But he noted that the policy could change by next season. “There are several team execs who believe it’s one loophole that needs to be revisited for 2022, believing an unvaccinated player who lands [on] the Covid-19 reserve list should not be paid if he misses a game or games,” Mortensen noted.    


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jane
2 years ago

enough they need to takr their fines and shove them