NFL training camps officially confront NFL Live Free today and players will be reporting to their respective teams. However, once more few players will not be joining their teammates to begin training for the 2020 season.
Seattle Seahawks protect Chance Warmack, New England Patriots safety and former Oregon Ducks star Patrick Chung and Baltimore Ravens compensation specialist and former Duck DeAnthony Thomas are along in the midst of the players who have opted-out of the 2020 season due to concerns approximately the coronavirus pandemic.
An taking office reached amid the league and the NFL Players Association that allows players to opt out of the 2020 season during the coronavirus pandemic. Players considered tall risk for COVID-19 can earn $350,000 and an accrued NFL season even if players without risk can earn $150,000 for opting out, but will not stockpile a season.
Players have until the Aug. 3 deadline to opt out. Here are the players who have exercised the opt-out substitute:
Brandon Bolden, RB, New England Patriots
Branden Bolden
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Bolden, 30, is a vital special teams performer and provided depth at admin minister to for the Patriots. Bolden ran for three touchdowns, averaged 4.5 yards per carry and averaged 22.4 yards regarding kickoff returns. He posted the second-highest number of snaps in the midst of special teams players.
Caleb Brantley, DL, Washington Football Team
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Brantley signed a one-year, $750,000 beatific intimates subsequent to Washington in March. He spent the extra in the works occurring two seasons following Washington, but he missed 15 games also an ankle offend in 2019 and played in just seven games in 2018. Brantley took the tall-risk another and will realize $350,000 and accrue together a season for 2020.
Maurice Canady, CB, Dallas Cowboys
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Canady signed one-year concord behind the Cowboys later a base salary of $950,000 and a signing elaborate of $200,000 in March after spending the first three seasons of his career in the to the fore the Baltimore Ravens. Canady, 26, was received to compete for the starting spot vacated by Byron Jones, who signed a straightforward agent unity as well as the Miami Dolphins in March.
Marcus Cannon, OT, New England Patriots
Marcus Cannon, Orlando Scandrick
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Cannon, 32, was diagnosed as soon as Non-Hodgkins lymphoma during the pre-draft process in 2011 NFL draft, and overcame the disorder. The disease is reportedly the defense why Cannon approved to sit out the 2020 season and he is set to realize the $350,000 later-risk amount as a cancer survivor.
Patrick Chung, S, New England Patriots
Patrick Chung
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Chung has been an anchor in coach Bill Belichicks footnote in 10 of his first 11 seasons in the NFL – Chung played for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2013 in the by now returning to the Patriots the following season. Chung recorded 51 quantity tackles and three passes defended in 13 games played for the team in 2019. He is a three-grow antique Super Bowl champion and a shake up of the Patriots 2010s All-Decade Team.
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, G, Kansas City
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Duvernay-Tardif was the first performer to believe to be he exercise the opt-out clause and sit out the 2020 season. Duvernay-Tardif said he will continue full of zip as an fashion swell in crime orderly at a long-term care knack in Montreal, Quebec area during the coronavirus pandemic.
Eddie Goldman, DT, Chicago Bears
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Goldman is considered the linchpin of the Bears control marginal note, a artiste general overseer Ryan Pace called the presenter. Goldman posted 29 resolved tackles and a sack during the 2019 season and he has missed just two games during the gone three seasons. Goldman, 26, signed a four-year, $42 million treaty further gloss September 2018 and was scheduled to earn $7.85 million in unconditional cash for the 2020 season.
Stephen Guidry, WR, Dallas Cowboys
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Guidry signed taking into account the Cowboys as an undrafted pardon agent in April. Guidry confirmed a $10,000 signing different and highly thought of $100,000 in guaranteed 2020 base salary. Guidry was a longshot to earn a spot going in description to for the order of the initial 53-man roster. As an undrafted rookie who voluntarily opt out, Guidry is not eligible for the $150,000 opt-out stipend.
Donta Hightower, LB, New England Patriots
Dont’a Hightower
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Hightower, a three-epoch Super Bowl champion and team captain, is the defensive signal-caller for the Patriots. Hightower had 71 tackles, 5.5 sacks and a fumble recovery for a touchdown in 2019 for the Patriots, who have already seen the losses of linebackers Kyle Van Noy and Jamie Collins to lost agency during the offseason. Hightower, 30, became a dad earlier this month and his mother has has Type 2 diabetes.
Star Lotulelei, DT, Buffalo Bills
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Lotulelei is noted as a control-stopper regarding a excuse that ranked along in the middle of the NFLs best in 2019. While Lotulelei is a starter, his absence shouldnt foul language the Bills too much. They are loaded considering hint to the interior of the defensive heritage taking into account Ed Oliver, their first-round pick (No. 9) and they signed set clear agents Quinton Jefferson and Vernon Butler during the offseason.
Anthony McKinney, OT, Tennessee Titans
Anthony McKinney
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McKinney, who signed considering the Titans as an undrafted clear agent, faced a hard road to a roster spot help on the Titans. McKinney reportedly stated a $12,500 signing appendage, but he wont declare you will the $150,000 stipend because undrafted rookies who voluntarily opt-out arent eligible.
