With reign­ing NFL MVP Lamar Jack­son under quar­an­tine as part of an out­break of COVID-19 that has rav­aged the Bal­ti­more Ravens, the team has turned its focus from break­ing out of a slump to sim­ply get­ting healthy and back to practice.

The Ravens have more than a dozen play­ers on the reserve/­COVID-19 list, and their train­ing facil­i­ty is closed to pre­vent the spread of the virus . Jack­son test­ed pos­i­tive this week and will not play against the unbeat­en Pitts­burgh Steel­ers next Tues­day night, a game that was orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled for Thanks­giv­ing night and post­poned to Sun­day before the NFL moved the game again.

The make­up for the make­up will be held at 8 p.m. ET and tele­cast nation­al­ly by NBC.

With that game mov­ing to Tues­day, Baltimore’s game against Dal­las, sched­uled for Thurs­day, Dec. 3, will instead be played at 5 o’clock on Mon­day, Dec. 7 and tele­cast by FOX/NFL Net/Amazon.

“We appre­ci­ate the efforts of the NFL and Pitts­burgh Steel­ers through­out this process, while we all work to cre­ate an envi­ron­ment that keeps the health and safe­ty of every­one involved at the fore­front of each deci­sion,” Ravens coach John Har­baugh said. “Our orga­ni­za­tion has a plan in place, and we will be pre­pared to play the Steel­ers. We thank every­one for their adapt­abil­i­ty and look for­ward to the chal­lenge of fac­ing a very good foot­ball team at Heinz Field on Tues­day night.”

Bal­ti­more (6–4) will be decid­ed­ly short-hand­ed against Pitts­burgh (10–0).

Jack­son, full­back Patrick Ricard, defen­sive tack­le Justin Madubuike, and long snap­per Mor­gan Cox were added to the COVID-19 list on Mon­day. They join quar­ter­back Trace McSor­ley; run­ning backs Mark Ingram and J.K. Dob­bins; defen­sive line­men Calais Camp­bell, Bran­don Williams and Jihad Ward; line­backer Per­nell McPhee; and cen­ters Patrick Mekari and Matt Skura.

A year ago, the Ravens fin­ished with the best reg­u­lar-sea­son record in the NFL behind the play of Jack­son, who threw 36 touch­down pass­es and set a sin­gle-sea­son record for yards rush­ing by a quar­ter­back. Now Jack­son is part of a mas­sive break­down by a team that couldn’t avoid COVID-19 in the midst of a sea­son the NFL staged in the mid­dle of a pandemic.

Baltimore’s prob­lems start­ed after an over­time loss to Ten­nessee on Sun­day, the third defeat in four games for a team that has gone from a 5–1 start to scram­bling to make the play­offs for a third straight year.

Ingram and Dob­bins were placed on the reserve/­COVID-19 list the fol­low­ing day, start­ing a chain reac­tion that has dec­i­mat­ed the roster.

Robert Grif­fin III is slat­ed to start at quar­ter­back for the Ravens on Tues­day against the Steel­ers. He will be tak­ing snaps from a third-string cen­ter and hand­ing off to back­up run­ning backs Gus Edwards and Jus­tice Hill.

“We just want to con­tain this out­break! Speak­ing from expe­ri­ence … you don’t want to catch COVID!,” Camp­bell wrote on Twit­ter. “This virus is bru­tal! I pray no one else has to go thru this. This is big­ger than football.”

The Ravens have dis­ci­plined one of their staffers for fail­ure to fol­low pro­to­col, report­ed­ly a strength and con­di­tion­ing coach.

This isn’t the first time this sea­son COVID-19 has toyed with Pittsburgh’s schedule.

The Steel­ers were sched­uled to play Ten­nessee in Nashville on Sun­day, Oct. 4. The league then pushed the game to either Mon­day or Tues­day. When the pos­i­tive tests con­tin­ued to roll in for the Titans, the NFL even­tu­al­ly moved the game to Sun­day, Oct. 25, forc­ing the Steel­ers, in essence, to give up their sched­uled bye ini­tial­ly set for Sun­day, Nov. 1 — and fin­ish the reg­u­lar sea­son by play­ing 13 con­sec­u­tive weeks.

Steel­ers head coach Mike Tom­lin stressed he was hard­ly con­cerned with the switch, say­ing emphat­i­cal­ly “we do not care” when asked about the team’s rou­tine being thrown off.

Pitts­burgh has cruised along any­way, though the league’s last unbeat­en team has been forced to deal with its own COVID-19 issues in recent weeks. Tight end Vance McDon­ald test­ed pos­i­tive fol­low­ing a win over Dal­las ear­li­er this month. Quar­ter­back Ben Roeth­lis­berg­er and inside line­backer Vince Williams were among a hand­ful of play­ers forced to self-quar­an­tine for five days due to con­tact trac­ing. Roeth­lis­berg­er and Williams still end­ed up play­ing in what became a 36–10 rout of Cincinnati.

In a sign of just how per­va­sive COVID-19 has become, short­ly after the league announced it was mov­ing the con­test to Tues­day, the Steel­ers placed defen­sive end Stephon Tuitt, offen­sive line­man Jer­ald Hawkins and defen­sive tack­le Isa­iah Bug­gs on the COVID-19 reserve/injured list.

Tuitt is in the mid­dle of a career year. His sev­en sacks rank third on the team behind out­side line­back­ers T.J. Watt and Bud Dupree.