Details on new rules impacting how Dolphins fans will get news. And new NFL/COVID rules

Don’t expect to see any real-time nuggets such as “Tua Tagovailoa to DeVante Parker for a 70-yard touchdown” on your social media timelines this summer.

The NFL has banned live tweeting and blogging during training camp and is curtailing the number of reporters who can attend training camp practices.

Also, the league told teams that players who test positive for COVID-19 during training camp must sit out at least five days, potentially longer.

Among the training camp rules and how it affects the information fans will receive:

▪ The 12 to 15 training camp practices are typically open to fans and dozens of reporters.

While the NFL has made no announcement about whether fans will be permitted, the NFL said the media presence for each team’s training camp practice will include:

1) Tier 2M, including a maximum of 10 people who can watch practice from the sidelines. That will include local print and broadcast reporters, network reporters who are watching the team that day, and a videographer and still photographer.

2) Tier 3-Outdoor Access, including an additional pool of 30 people that will be allowed to watch practice while remaining at least 10 feet from the practice field.

Per the PF Writers Association, that group will “include additional media and broadcast personnel, additional security personnel, additional medical personnel and club scouts.”

The NFL said live tweeting, blogging and reporting of anything while practice is ongoing will not be permitted. That’s the first time the league has instituted that policy. Reporters also will not be permitted to text message during practice, though a team could make an exception if a reporter has a family emergency.

The NFL told me that teams will select the Tier 2M reporters; that will present a conundrum for franchises.

In the Dolphins’ case, the organization must choose among the five major publications that cover the team for the Tier 2M slots — the Miami Herald, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, The Palm Beach Post, The Associated Press and ESPN — as well as four local English TV affiliates, two Spanish TV affiliates and its radio rights-holder, WQAM-560.

And that doesn’t even include several other newer internet outlets that cover the team, as well as Palm Beach County TV and radio stations.

One of the eight writer/broadcaster slots in Tier 2M is expected to go to ESPN and another to NFL Network when it has a reporter present.

In-house media — such as Dolphins.com — will not count among the Tier 2M reporters.

▪ The reporters are permitted to disclose who was present at practice — and who wasn’t — in their daily reports, as well as highlights from practice and “non-strategy and non game-plan observations.”

But reporters cannot report game strategy observed, specific plays run or which players are practicing with individual units, such as goal-line offense or nickel defense packages. Reporters also cannot report any conversations heard between coaches, players or staff during practices.

▪ As expected, no in-person interviews with players or coaches will be permitted for the foreseeable future; as is the case with the NBA, MLB and NHL, interviews will be conducted on Zoom.

The 10 Tier 2M reporters must be tested for COVID-19 when arriving and must wear masks at all times.

▪ Per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, if a player has close contact exposure to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or is symptomatic before being tested, a PCR virus test will be given as soon as possible with that player isolating until results are available.

If the test for that player comes back negative and the close contact remains asymptomatic, the player is permitted to return to the club facility after increased “system monitoring” and regular testing moving forward.

▪ If the player tests positive during training camp and preseason, there are differing protocols if an individual is symptomatic or has no symptoms.

For players who test positive and have no symptoms, they can return after 10 days have passed since an initial positive test or five days have passed since an initial positive test and they get two consecutive negative PCR virus tests administered within 24 hours. Also, a team physician must approve their return to practice.

For players who test positive and have symptoms, players cannot return until at least 10 days have passed since the first COVID symptoms appeared and at least 72 hours after symptoms last occurred. And a club physician must approve their return.

▪ Per Pelissero, all Tier 1-3 personnel (including players, coaches, many staffers) “will also be required to wear Kinexon Proximity Recording tracking devices at all times” during team activities, including at facility, practice, travel.”

▪ Teams may no longer require players to stay in team hotels during training camp.

▪ NFL Network reported that “if a club employee or other member of the club’s staff knowingly and materially fail to follow these protocols, they will be subject to discipline.”

▪ Pro Football Talk reported Saturday the league wants to give teams the ability to hold up to two fan events at their stadiums during training camp.

PFF said: “The union is willing to do it, with limitations. The number of fans would be restricted [and subject to agreement], and they would be kept distant from players. There would be no interaction between fans and players, and fans in stadiums would be seated a specific number of rows from the field.”

Fans also would be subject to temperature checks and screening for symptoms.

▪ Pro Football Talk also reported that the NFL Players Association has asked that there be no 11-on-11 activities during practice once the regular season begins, which would obviously be a dramatic change to how the league conducts practices.

The union, per PFT, “also wants limited practices and group activities in the days leading up to travel and games, with restrictions applying as of Thursday of a given week, in order to permit accurate testing and to limit transmission of the virus.”

NFL player representatives voted Thursday to play no preseason games, but it’s unclear if the NFL will acquiesce to that after already slicing the schedule from four games to two.