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(Reuters) - The
National Football League (NFL) has stripped the Las Vegas
Raiders of a 2021 sixth-round draft pick and fined them $500,000
for repeated COVID-19 protocol breaches, NFL Network has
confirmed https://www.nfl.com/news/raiders-jon-gruden-fined-lose-draft-pick-for-covid-19-violations.
Raiders coach Jon Gruden was also fined $150,000 after the
league placed the team under its "intensive protocol" measures
last month following offensive tackle Trent Brown's positive
test ahead of a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The NFL Network report added that Brown had been placed on the
reserve/COVID-19 list for a second time earlier this week.
Gruden ($100,000) and the club ($250,000) had previously been
fined when the coach failed to follow "proper face-covering
protocol" in their Sept. 21 win over the New Orleans Saints.
Several Raiders players were fined for attending an indoor
charity event in September and the NFL penalised the team for
allowing an unauthorised visitor in the locker room after the
Saints game.
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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