Booker headed for COVID-19 list

The Raiders will place running back Devontae Booker on the temporary COVID-19 injured reserve list.

The Raiders signed the four-year veteran free agent during the offseason. He spent his entire career with the Denver Broncos.

Per the COVID-19 protocols, if a player tests positive and is symptomatic, his return is predicated on at least 10 days passing since the symptoms first occurred and at least 72hours passing since symptoms last occurred.

In asymptomatic positive result cases, players can return either 10 days after the positive test or in five days if the player tests negative twice over that period.

Booker does not count against the team’s roster while he is on the temporary COVID-19 injured reserve list.

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frank and honest policing from one player to the next. Gruden is counting on the peer pressure among players to enforce an around-theclock adherence to protocols and safe behavior.

The goal, of course, is to manage COVID-19 in a way that allows the Raiders to field as complete a team as possible every Sunday. That will require a 24-hour a day, all-in approach.

That’s true now more than ever after Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins had their 17th player test positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, an outbreak that has at least temporarily halted their season.

“To me that’s the No. 1 goal,” Gruden said. “What you do in the building is being evaluated. In the strength room and the training room, on the field, in the meeting rooms. You can’t evaluate everything you do off the field. So we have a players committee and great leadership here that understands that one mistake can be our demise. One mistake can bring us all down in a real bad way.”

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