Noah Spence Injury Highlights an Issue for NFL Players Working Out on Their Own
As first reported on May 26th, New Orleans Saints defensive end Noah Spence suffered a torn ACL while working out away from the team. The reason why he was working out away from the team is due to the coronavirus pandemic shutting down offseason workouts at team facilities. Since this was the case, the Saints had already elected to not even require any virtual workouts or activities for players during their allowed window. Any individual preparation was conducted by the player or players on their own and not run by the team or under the watchful eye of any team personnel. Spence was not doing anything wrong, but now his 2020 season is likely over or at least in jeopardy, and the team has placed him on the non-football injury list. What this means is that Spence no longer counts against the team's 90 man roster and they can go ahead and sign another player to take his roster spot. It also means Spence cannot play for the Saints at all this year and the team would not be required to