Topline Jimmy Graham, the Chicago Bears starting tight end, took to social media Thursday to claim he felt he was “basically forced” into receiving a Covid-19 vaccine shot and express frustration towards proposed revisions to the league’s coronavirus protocols, including a return to daily testing for all players. Graham, who led the Bears in touchdown receptions last season, wrote, “I’ve done everything I’ve … [+] been asked, and now I feel like I’m being punished.” Getty Images Key Facts Graham tweeted out a screencap of a memo issued earlier this week by the NFL Players Association, which detailed the NFLPA’s planned response to the surge in breakthrough cases attributed to the delta variant, and wrote he “was basically forced into getting the vaccine. Now I’m just confused.” In a subsequent tweet, Graham, who led the Bears in touchdown receptions last season, wrote, “I’ve done everything I’ve been asked, and now I feel like I’m being punished.” Graham stated that players would be fined up to $150,000 for missing a coronavirus test, adding, “How does this make sense. How’s the punishment 100x worse than last year, and I’m vaccinated now?” According to NFL.com, players that refuse to submit to testing will result in a fine of $50,000, not $150k, and that $14,650 fines will be issued to unvaccinated players who don’t wear a tracking monitor or follow restrictions to abstain from attending bars, concerts, sporting events, etc. … Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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