Wide receiver Cole Beasley was added to the reserve/COVID-19 list by the Buffalo Bills. Beasley tested positive, and because he is unvaccinated, he will at minimum miss the game against the New England Patriots on Sunday and will be out for at least 10 days. In an Instagram post Tuesday evening, Beasley said he was “feeling fine with mild symptoms.”
He then spoke on testing positive and the rules keeping him off the field, not the virus.
“Just to be clear COVID is not keeping me out of this game. The rules are,” Beasley wrote Tuesday on Instagram. “Vaxxed players are playing with Covid every week now because they don’t test. One of my vaxxed teammates is in the hospital missing games. I’m sure he didn’t get the same energy. Thank you for those who support. Everyone else, if you don’t get what’s happening then there is nothing anybody can do for you.”
Beasley then replied to a user who stated, “Once I got those monoclonal antibodies, I started to feel wayyyy better!! Why aren’t we promoting treatments for COVID?”
Beasley responded “cause then they can’t make money on the vaccine. Lol.”
Teammate Jon Feliciano, who also is on the COVID-19 list, posted on Twitter Tuesday that he “ended up in the ER on Sunday.”
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Beasley has been the most outspoken person in the NFL regarding the COVID-19 vaccine.
“When I first got here, I got away from [social media], and then things happen,” Beasley said in October. “And the issues that we have at hand, and I just felt like I needed to take responsibility for the guys that couldn’t.
“But it’s good for me to get back to where I wanted to be, and it’s not on there. The real world is out here and not there. Most people say things on there that you don’t want to hear. And it’s definitely a weight lifted, and I feel like I did the right thing.”
“I’m not anti- or pro-vax — I’m pro-choice,” Beasley said in July. “With that being said, the issue at hand is information being withheld from players in order for a player to be swayed in a direction he may not be comfortable with.”
Before deleting his Twitter account, Beasley offered to buy tickets for fans at away games after vaccinations became required to attend games at Highmark Stadium.
