Earlier this week, Buffalo Bills receiver Isaiah McKenzie tweeted a citation he received from the National Football League, docking him $14,650 for repeated violations of the league’s COVID-19 Protocols, including failure to wear a mask at team facilities, which is required of all players who remain unvaccinated.
Determined not to lose any more of his $1.128 million salary, McKenzie apparently received his first Pfizer shot, displaying his vaccine card in an Instagram story Saturday morning along with the caption, “For the greater good.”
While many have pushed back on the NFL’s restrictive COVID-19 policies (teammate Cole Beasley among them), the league’s hardline approach appears to be working with 93% of players vaccinated as of Thursday.
A core special teamer and gadget player who runs roughly half his routes from the slot (53.3% in 2020), McKenzie compiled 30 catches for 282 yards and five touchdowns last season while totaling an additional nine yards as a ball-carrier out of the backfield (10 rushing attempts).
The 26-year-old Georgia alum joins a crowded Bills receiving corps inhabited by the likes of Beasley, veteran Emmanuel Sanders, Gabriel Davis, Green Bay Packers alum Jake Kumerow and last year’s NFL receiving yards leader, Stefon Diggs.
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