Washington's Kyle Allen to COVID reserve: Here are Football Team's emergency QB options vs. Eagles - CBS Sports

The NFL's COVID crisis has already threatened to upend one team's lineup for Week 15, with the Browns preparing to play without starting quarterback Baker Mayfield and more than a dozen others. It could also affect Washington Football Team, which is fighting to remain in the 2021 playoff picture with a divisional game against the Eagles on Sunday. Starting QB Taylor Heinicke is questionable with a knee injury, but now his only backup, Kyle Allen, is headed to COVID reserve, as NFL Media reports.

Washington was already set to endure a lack of depth entering Sunday's NFC East tilt with nine defenders -- including starters Jonathan Allen, Montez Sweat and Kendall Fuller -- battling COVID-19 and star wide receiver Terry McLaurin in concussion protocol. But the QB situation could be just as dire. Here's a look at all of their options (or lack thereof) under center:

QB	Status
Ryan Fitzpatrick	Injured reserve (hip); out for season
Taylor Heinicke	Questionable (knee); left Week 14 vs. Cowboys and did not return
Kyle Allen	COVID-19 reserve; out Week 15 unless he tests negative twice beforehand
Kyle Shurmur	Practice squad
Jordan Ta'amu	Practice squad; just signed Wednesday

Heinicke has long been locked in as Washington's QB1, with Fitzpatrick last appearing in Week 1, and he's kept the team competitive in recent weeks. But the fact he didn't return in the fourth quarter of the club's Week 14 loss to Dallas suggests he's not guaranteed to suit up against the Eagles, let alone start at full health.

Allen, who finished last week's game under center, would've offered a relatively seamless transition. The former Panthers reserve has started under Ron Rivera in both Carolina and Washington, going 1-3 in place of Dwayne Haskins in 2020. But unless he produces two negative COVID tests before Sunday's game, he'll be ineligible to take the field.

That leaves Shurmur and Ta'amu, neither of whom has made their official NFL debut, as the only alternatives. The former joined Washington's practice squad in September after spending 2019-2020 on and off the Chiefs' and Bengals' scout teams. Ta'amu, perhaps best known for his brief turn as a standout XFL QB in 2020, split time between the Chiefs' and Lions' practice squads over the last two seasons.

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