Deandre Hopkins Contemplating Retirement After NFL Announces New COVID-19 Rules

The NFL is doing it’s best to ensure the league gets through a full preseason, 17-game season and ensuing postseason, and that’s come down to attempting to have the overwhelmingly majority of players vaccinated.

Some aren’t taking too kindly to that sentiment.

Cardinals top pass-catcher and arguably the NFL’s best WR Deandre Hopkins posted this tweet Thursday afternoon hinting at a possible retirement on the back of the league’s new rules imposing a penalty of a forfeit if an unvaccinated player causes an outbreak that forced a game to be cancelled.

Hopkins tweeted two other times with his thoughts, stating that friends came down with heart problems following their vaccinations.

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The latest figures show only 14 of the league’s 32 teams with the targeted 85% vaccination rate, a number that the league hopes will increase due to the threat of forfeits without pay coming this season.