In a memo sent to clubs Wednesday and obtained by The Associated Press, the league and the NFL Players Association agreed that only high-risk players will receive a stipend of $350,000.
To qualify as high risk, a player must have opted out last season and have an effective contract executed before Oct.
The contract for any player who opts out will toll at the end of the year, and all provisions of the 2021 contract will become applicable to 2022.
Teams might not be permitted to challenge if a player’s COVID-19 infection is football-related if the player was fully vaccinated at the time he contracted the virus and the player received an initial negative test upon timely reporting to preseason training camp.