Bills WRs Cole Beasley Among Six Players Out Due To COVID-19 Protocols

Update:

Per Matthew Fairburn, Bills GM Brandon Beane listed WRs Cole Beasley and Gabriel Davis and DTs Star Lotulelei and Vernon Butler as close contacts following exposure to a vaccinated staff member who tested positive for COVID-19. 

He added, via Marcel Louis-Jacques, that Bills LBs A.J. Klein and Matt Milano decided to go home as close contacts and were not mandated to by the NFL. 

Update: 

Pat Leonard adds that Bills LBs A.J. Klein and Matt Milano are also among the players who have to stay away from the team facility for five days. 

Both were exposed to the trainer with the positive COVID-19 test. 

According to Pat Leonard, Bills WRs Cole Beasley and Gabriel Davis are out for five days due to the NFL’s COVID-19 protocols. 

Adam Schefter adds Bills DT Star Lotulelei has also been sent home from the team facility. 

The three were exposed to a trainer who tested positive for COVID-19 and are deemed close contacts as a result. The trainer was fully vaccinated. 

Neither player has tested positive for the virus but because both are unvaccinated, they have to clear the five-day reentry testing protocol to ensure they remain negative. 

Beasley, 32, signed on with the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent out of SMU back in 2012. He spent seven years in Dallas and finished out the final year of his four-year, $13.6 million contract.

The Bills later signed Beasley to a four-year deal worth $29 million. He’s set to make base salaries of $4.7 and $4.9 million over the next two seasons. 

In 2020, Beasley appeared in 15 games for the Bills and caught 82 passes for 967 yards receiving and four touchdowns.

Lotulelei, 31, is a former first-round pick of the Panthers back in 2013. He played out the final year of his four-year, $9.605 million rookie contract before the Panthers picked up his fifth-year option.

Lotulelei made a base salary of $6 million for the 2017 season before eventually signing a five-year contract with the Bills in 2018. 

In 2019, Lotulelei appeared in all 16 games for the Bills and recorded 19 tackles, two sacks, an interception and a pass defense.