The Baltimore Ravens have now placed 20 players on the Covid-19/ restrictive list ahead of Tuesday's game against the Steelers. Per Fox's Jay Glazer reporting, there will be at least two additional players will be added by tomorrow.

Originally scheduled to headline the league's slate of games on Thanksgiving night, the match had been postponed following the announcement that multiple players had contracted the coronavirus. As a result of the move, the NFL also subsequently was forced to move the team's scheduled Thursday night game on December 3rd, to Monday December 7th.

While the exact cause of the outbreak has yet to be announced, Baltimore has disciplined a strength and conditioning coach who failed to wear a tracker necessary to the organization's contact tracing methods, per Jonas Shaffer of the Baltimore Sun. Though it is not believed that the coach infected anyone, contact tracing has proven vital in determining which players are removed from the team environment, and has thus been tightly enforced by the league.

With nearly a third of the Ravens' active roster unable to participate in the match against the Steelers, attention will now likely be drawn towards the team's ability to actually compete in the game. Despite having avoided the need to cancel any contests 11 weeks into the season, the news Saturday, of the severity of the spread in Baltimore, was unfortunately only item in a slew of COVID-related developments around the NFL.

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Around the league, the Denver Broncos have no quarterbacks available on their active roster following their exposure without masks to an infected Jeff Driskel, and the San Francisco 49ers are unable to play their home games after a decision by the county of Santa Clara to restrict all sports related activities.

For a league that had mostly exceeded expectations in their handling of the pandemic, Saturday was a day they'd almost certainly like to forget.