The elite leagues/teams paying the top athletes gobs of money will either have illicitly arranged for their athletes to have received placebo injections on the down low, or else will have their ways of ensuring those athletes are vexxed to the hilt with real Fauci juice, no exceptions allowed (except for the very best players).
All vaccines carry a risk. Was it worth it to get vaxxed if you are just going to get Covid anyway? I got the jab because I am old.