Hometown Broadcasting Sports Friday 4/3/20
3 April 2020 Sports
The Packers have officially signed receiver Devin Funchess. The former Panther and Colt gives Aaron Rodgers another big target. For his career, Funchess has played in 62 regular-season games with 41 starts and hauled in 164 passes for 2,265 yards (13.8 avg.) and 21 touchdowns.
Funchess, 25, has played in 62 career games (41 starts) in his time with the Colts (2019) and Carolina Panthers (2015-18) and has compiled 164 receptions for 2,265 yards and 21 touchdowns. He has started four postseason contests and has caught nine passes for 152 yards and one touchdown.
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With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing teams to adjust their offseason activities and draft preparation, the NFL on Thursday provided guidelines for all 32 teams on draft-day operations based on communications between the league’s management council, and club counsel and conversations with league and team IT departments.
The league issued a memo, obtained by NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, informing all clubs the two scenarios currently being considered by the NFL as it pertains to this month’s draft. The first option is for clubs to operate out of their facilities, “subject to mandatory health and safety guidelines issued by Dr. (Allen) Sills, which will include limitations on the number of permitted club personnel at the facility and rigorous cleaning requirements.” The second option is for teams to operate completely remotely, in “personal residences, with a clear prohibition on any number of club personnel gathering in one residence.”
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An NFL great is recovering this week after spending five days in the hospital with COVID-19. Former Jaguars tackle Tony Boselli on Thursday revealed the details of his battle with the illness he contracted as a result of the new coronavirus pandemic currently gripping the world. In an interview with the Florida Times-Union, Boselli described his condition, which worsened from a cold with mild congestion to a fever and an illness that progressed so quickly, he had to be admitted to the Mayo Clinic’s intensive care unit on March 25.
Boselli spent the next five days in the unit, where he was hooked up to two IVs and needed additional oxygen. His condition deteriorated, requiring doctors to increase his oxygen levels before he rebounded and eventually improved enough to go home.
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The Green Bay Packers named Dr. Chris Carr Director of Performance Psychology and Team Behavioral Health Clinician. The announcement was made Thursday by General Manager Brian Gutekunst.
Carr, who has worked as a consultant for the Packers since 2018, joins the team after working as a sports and performance psychologist at St. Vincent Sports Performance in Indianapolis since 2006. He was recently awarded the Bruce Ogilvie Award for Professional Practice through APA (American Psychological Association) Division 47 (Society for Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology) and will be honored at the 2020 APA Convention in Washington, D.C., in August.
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