WATCH: Vince’s View on the NFL with analyst Solomon Wilcots on Vols Smith, Callaway & Kamara; 3 team breakdowns

WATCH: Vince’s View on the NFL with analyst Solomon Wilcots on Vols Smith, Callaway & Kamara; 3 team breakdowns

By Vince Ferrara / @VinceSports

I had the pleasure to catch-up with outstanding NFL analyst Solomon Wilcots. See that interview and podcast below.

Solomon works for SiriusXM NFL Radio Channel 88 and Pro Football Focus. He spent many years as an NFL game analyst for CBS.

He’s a spokesperson for Operation Expanded Testing and we discussed that with him including some of these details below the interviews:

About Operation Expanded Testing:

OET is a no-cost program coordinated by the HHS and the DoD to provide K-12 schools, prisons, homeless shelters, and historically black colleges and universities with COVID-19 surveillance testing.  Affinity Empowering implements these testing programs.

  • What is Operation Expanded Testing?
  • Operation Expanded Testing is a federal, no-cost program to provide COVID-19 surveillance testing to schools and community organizations.
  • Who is eligible to enroll in the program?
  • Operation Expanded Testing is open to K-12 schools, prisons, homeless shelters, and historically black colleges and universities.
  • Why is COVID-19 testing so important to student athletic programs?
  • Athletes can be in close contact with each other and with different schools.
  • The CDC recommends student athletes get tested for COVID-19.
  • Our number one priority is getting students in the classroom and on the field.
  • How can parents, coaches and school administrators get more information and sign up for OET? Is it difficult?
  • It’s as easy as logging onto affinitytesting.com or calling 1-844-631-0469.
Solomon Wilcots – SiriusXM NFL Radio / Credit: 99.1 The Sports Animal

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