Super Bowl-Winning Athlete Opts Out of 2020 NFL Season So He Can Continue Working on COVID-19

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It has not even been one year since Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, the offensive lineman for the Kansas City Chiefs, was celebrating the team’s Super Bowl victory over the San Francisco 49ers—but now, the football star is opting out of the upcoming NFL season.

Since Duvernay-Tardif is a medical school graduate from McGill University in Montréal, he has been working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 outbreaks at a long-term care facility in Canada.

Rather than returning to “play the sport he loves,” Duvernay-Tardif says he will continue assisting as an orderly until the novel coronavirus is controlled.

The 29-year-old athlete published an open letter to his social media followers last week announcing his absence from the 2020 football season.

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Super Bowl-Winning Athlete Opts Out of 2020 NFL Season So He Can Continue Working on COVID-19 Frontlines