NFL announces schedule changes for upcoming Broncos-Patriots, Bills-Titans games
Published: Oct 08, 2020 at 08:37 PM

Grant Gordon
NFL.com Digital Content Producer


Two scheduling changes for Week 5 -- and a potential one for Week 6 -- were announced by the NFL on Thursday as a result of COVID-19 cases affecting multiple NFL teams.

The Denver Broncos at New England Patriots game originally scheduled for Sunday is now scheduled for Monday at 5 p.m. ET on ESPN. Sunday's Buffalo Bills at Tennessee Titans contest now is set to be played on Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET on CBS. The Kansas City Chiefs at Bills Week 6 game set for next Thursday will be moved to "later in the weekend" should Bills-Titans be played Tuesday, per the league's official release.

"These scheduling decisions were made to ensure the health and safety of players, coaches and game day personnel and in consultation with medical experts," the league stated in the announcement.

This will mark the second consecutive week in which the Patriots have had a Sunday game moved to Monday. Their Week 4 game against the Chiefs also was rescheduled.

The news follows Patriots star cornerback Stephon Gilmore testing positive for the novel coronavirus, which came to light on Wednesday morning. Gilmore was the third Patriots player to have tested positive of late, joining quarterback Cam Newton and practice-squad defensive lineman Bill Murray.

Earlier Thursday, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported the Patriots had zero new positive COVID-19 tests stemming from Wednesday's testing. NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported that the Patriots will continue to work virtually Friday with their facility closed.

The Titans' facility is also closed and has been since Sep. 29 following their Week 3 game against the Minnesota Vikings, as Tennessee has had multiple positive COVID-19 tests this week.

The Titans will also have a second straight week in which their schedule has been altered.


Tennessee's Week 4 contest versus the Pittsburgh Steelers was pushed back to Week 7. Currently, 21 members of the organization have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

The NFL and NFL Players Association are currently looking into multiple unauthorized workouts involving Titans players since their facility closed, Pelissero reported earlier Thursday. Previously, NFLPA and NFL representatives went to the Titans facility to ascertain whether there was a break in protocol that led to the outbreak.

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Do we really need a half dozen threads on the same topic?

Chiefs setting up to get screwed pretty bad. Meanwhile, Buffalo fans are the ones screaming loud about the situation. Hilarious.

Odd that seemingly all the teams that have had positive tests so far are AFC teams

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This is the first and only thread on this topic. Thank you for your participation!

Falcons did have one.

So did the Saints.

Funny, we had been discussing this exact topic in another thread for a good hour before you posted this. Including the same Tweet you posted. ;)

Wasn’t that a false positive though?

Weird nobody in that discussion thought it was newsworthy.

Not enough to start a whole new thread about it. It was already being discussed. ;)

I haven’t read the other thread at all so I had no idea about this. I’d say a Chiefs game being moved is certainly thread worthy. There are threads about pots and pans after all.

I don't see the problem here. If we can have a thread in the lounge about cookware, and another one about fog machines, why can't we have a newsworthy thread about the Chiefs? Who cares if it's mentioned in another thread??

How old is the earth bitch