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The Ravens and Steelers were originally scheduled to play on Thanksgiving night. The NFL moved the game to Sunday after several Ravens players tested positive in consecutive days.

At least 12 Ravens players have tested positive for COVID-19, including reigning NFL MVP Lamar Jackson. The Ravens placed Jackson, Pro Bowl fullback Patrick Ricard, defensive lineman Justin Madubuike and long-snapper Morgan Cox on the reserve/COVID-19 list Friday, adding to eight players placed on the list previously this week.

With Jackson quarantining for 10 days, quarterback Robert Griffin III will start against Pittsburgh. Jackson would be available to start against the Cowboys if he tests negative by next week. That means Jackson would have to miss only one game, thanks to the rescheduling.

Harbaugh told his players Thursday that they wouldn’t be allowed to return to the team facility until Monday at the earliest due to safety concerns.

The Ravens have had only two days of walk-throughs this week. Baltimore has been limited to virtual meetings since its team facility was closed at noon Tuesday.

The Steelers canceled practice Friday as they awaited clarification from the NFL. Coach Mike Tomlin also canceled Thursday’s practice, but the team is expected to practice Saturday. The Steelers were last on the field together Wednesday.

The Steelers also made additions to the reserve/COVID-19 list Friday, adding Isaiah Buggs, Jerald Hawkins and Stephon Tuitt. Tuitt is the only starter among the group; it’s Hawkins’ second time on the list.

This isn’t the first time the Steelers have dealt with shifting schedules this season. In Week 4, the Steelers-Titans game was initially postponed from Sunday to “either Monday or Tuesday” of that week as the Titans fought to control their own COVID-19 outbreak. The league eventually pushed the game back even more, rearranging the schedule for the Steelers and Titans to play in Week 7 and the Steelers to face the Ravens in Week 8. With the shuffle, the Steelers’ bye moved from Week 8 to Week 4.

The Cowboys will also alter their practice schedule with the shift in kickoff, although coach Mike McCarthy was not aware of the game-day change when he met with the media Friday.

After the death of strength and conditioning coordinator Markus Paul, McCarthy wants his team to get away from football. Players are off Friday and Saturday.

“I think it’s important for them to be with their family,” McCarthy said. “If we did move to Sunday, I wouldn’t anticipate us going into a normal seven-day week where I would just treat this weekend and probably Monday, Tuesday like a bye week. I think our team could use that. I have no idea what’s going to happen.”

ESPN’s Brooke Pryor and Todd Archer contributed to this report.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Wednesday he is grateful for Brady’s gesture toward his young QB at the time.

“[Brady] came by the locker room, and I just can’t tell you how much I appreciated that. And Patrick did, too,” Reid said. “It was a respect thing. I just really thought that was great. That was a tough game. He just said, ‘Hey, keep being you and things are gonna work out.’ And I think that just those simple words — that’s big for a young guy to hear, especially from somebody that great.”

Mahomes and the Chiefs (9-1) faced the Brady-less Patriots in Week 4 this season. He said that experience was strange, like playing against Brady with the Bucs (7-4) will be this week.

“I think I was as surprised as everyone was when he wasn’t going back to New England and he was going to Tampa Bay,” Mahomes said. “But he’s in a great spot. They’ve got a lot of weapons there and Coach [Bruce] Arians is a great coach, and they’re winning a lot of football games. For us, we’re just going with the same mindset as if we’re going to play any other great football team and we’re going to have to battle every single play.

“I don’t think it’s going to feel very much different. It’s still a very good football team that’s playing really good football and winning a lot of football games. So we know it’s going to be a great challenge for us, and we’re excited for it.”

Information from ESPN’s Jenna Laine was used in this report.

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Sources told ESPN that the Steelers will have a players day off Thursday after practicing Wednesday. Coach Mike Tomlin had planned to give his players off until next Wednesday after the Thanksgiving game, but those plans have changed.

“We feel like we have a really good handle on exactly when the transmission occurred and how it occurred,” Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, told NFL Network on Wednesday. “I think that we feel like we’re a couple of days away from being out of that window of vulnerability for that transmission event.”

This marks the 13th game that has been postponed or moved this season because of coronavirus-related issues but is the first postponement since Week 5. Three weeks ago, the San Francisco 49ers played against the Green Bay Packers on Thursday night even though they had placed four players on the reserve/COVID-19 list.

Earlier Wednesday, some Ravens players expressed concern about playing.

“Player safety … what a joke,” Ravens defensive end Derek Wolfe tweeted.

This is the first time since 2005 that the NFL will have only two games played on Thanksgiving.

The Ravens’ outbreak began hours after Sunday’s 30-24 overtime loss to the Titans, when the team learned running backs J.K. Dobbins and Mark Ingram had tested positive. Nose tackle Brandon Williams was later identified as a high-risk close contact.

On Monday, Baltimore closed its facility in the morning before reopening in the afternoon, when the team held a walk-through. A day later, the Ravens shut down the facility again after more positive tests and conducted all team activities virtually. Outside linebacker Pernell McPhee became the fourth Baltimore player added to the reserve/COVID-19 list in two days.

The postponement of Baltimore’s Thanksgiving game to Sunday means a quick turnaround. The Ravens are set to host the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday, Dec. 3. The Cowboys will have a full week to recover after playing on Thanksgiving, but Baltimore will play on three days’ rest.

The Ravens could enter that game short-handed. Any players who test positive must quarantine for at least 10 days.

The Steelers, who are 10-0 for the first time in franchise history, can clinch a playoff berth with a win over Baltimore and losses by the Miami Dolphins and Las Vegas Raiders. The Ravens (6-4) are looking to avoid their first three-game losing streak with Lamar Jackson as their starting quarterback.