And when that virus got a shot at the offensive line room, it definitely made the most of its opportunity.

Robert Hunt was one of the first to come down with it, missing practice Thursday.

“That s— was no joke, and I’m happy for my health right now,” Hunt said with a bit of a wheeze.

As soon as guys turn up sick, they try to sequester them immediately to keep it from spreading, but that’s hard to do in a football environment when position groups meet together and share a lot of time and space.

“You know how it goes, somebody gets it, it kind of goes around,” Hunt said. “We’re all, we’re with each other 24/7. We’re with each other more than our family sometimes.”

So Friday, Ikem Ekwonu missed practice with the same stuff, and that virus kept moving. By Sunday morning, starting center Cade Mays had it and wasn’t able to go.

Super-sub Brady Christensen — who can capably play any position on the line, and that’s a skill that’s handy in a situation like this — said he found out around 9:30 a.m. Sunday, when he saw the news on Twitter that Mays was sick.

“We’re all pounding vitamin C, washing our hands all the time, wearing masks,” Christensen said. “We’re all just trying to stay as healthy as possible, so you’re ready to go if need be.”

Around 11 a.m., they told Christensen to get ready to start, and he began snapping in pregame warmups. At 11:33 a.m., the news was official, and Mays was inactive, meaning yet another adjustment on the fly, another opportunity for another player.

And yet, it all worked out, with that wheezing and makeshift offensive line paving the way for 243 rushing yards.

“It was a great feeling to go get that win today, and it’s just like, playing in the middle of all the guys on the O-line, it’s like such a great opportunity because the players are just incredible,” Christensen said with a grin. “D-Lew and Rob, Ickey and T-Mo just like incredible group around me, so really I just had to go in and do my job and rely on those guys and make the right checks, make the right points, get everyone on the same page, and I knew after that it was going to be all good.”