Dez Bryant Calls it Quits for the Season After Testing Positive for COVID-19 Prior to Tuesday Night’s Game

A bizarre sequence of events took place on Tuesday night during pregame warmups for the Cowboys-Ravens game.  Baltimore wide receiver Dez Bryant was pulled off the field to be tested for COVID-19.

The test came back positive and Bryant was ruled out not long before kickoff.  Bryant was looking forward to playing against his old team and called it quits for the season on social media.

Tell me why they pull me from warming up so I can go get tested... my shit come back positive... I tested positive for Covid WTF

— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) December 9, 2020

The crazy thing is i have the same damn routine.... this shit do not make sense to me

— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) December 9, 2020

Yea I’m going to go ahead and call it a quit for the rest of the season... I can’t deal with this

— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) December 9, 2020

Since I tested positive for Covid before the game do the game stop or go on? @NFL

— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) December 9, 2020

Bryant must have been rapid tested prior to kickoff because of a test from Monday coming back positive.  He's most likely asymptomatic given how upset he is about missing the game.

Obviously I'm not going to make the same Dez caught it joke that everyone else is making.  But he did apparently catch it.