Fantasy Football: Titans COVID outbreak could lead to postponements. Here’s what you need to know

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The Titans had three players and five non-player personnel test positive for COVID-19 Tuesday morning and are shutting down their team facility and suspending all in-person activities, the team announced Tuesday. Their Week 3 opponent, the Vikings, are also suspending in-person team activities while undergoing testing. 

This is an unprecedented situation for the NFL, so the truth is, we just don’t know what to expect yet as far as the impact for Fantasy. At the very least, you should be preparing for the very real risk of playing without the Titans and Steelers in Week 4, because this very well could lead to a postponement of at least that game — the Vikings game against the Texans could also be in question if there was any cross-team spread, something we may not know until later this week. 

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Here’s what we know as this story continues to develop:

That’s pretty much everything we know right know, which isn’t much. We’ll get more details in the coming hours, but this is obviously a developing situation. In MLB, the Cardinals missed 16 days of action following an outbreak, while the Marlins sat out eight straight days following theirs. Both teams saw significant outbreaks that affected around half of the roster at least, however, and that may not end up being the case here. But you should be prepared for the possibility of something similar here.

We’ll be updating this as more information comes in, because this is obviously still a developing story with significant Fantasy implications for Week 4 and potentially beyond.