Joe Flacco is the latest NFL player to acknowledge publicly that he's unvaccinated.

"I'm not vaccinated," Flacco said when asked directly ahead of his first start of the season for the New York Jets.

Asked to discuss his reasons, Flacco said he didn't want to create a distraction.

"I definitely have my reasons," he said. "Honestly, I probably like to talk about this topic more than anybody. It’s one of those things that you debate with all the time. But overall I’ve felt like it’s more of a distraction than anything. So I feel like to kind of talk about it too much and give you all my beliefs, is more of a distraction than anything. I think the most important thing is going to play the football game."