Billings

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(10-09-2017, 02:26 PM)RoyleRedlegs Wrote: Not a rookie but he is a first year player. And that's largely because the NFL counts IR time as "under contract" where as other sporting leagues look at service time...as in actually on roster and seeing playing time. 


He's 3 years younger than Ryan Glasgow.
People need to chill.

Actually, it isn't any different in other sports as far as I know. If a player in MLB makes the 25 man roster, gets injured, and spends the whole season on the 60-day DL, that still counts as a year of service time, even if they only played a game or two.

Example being Homer Bailey only pitched 34 total innings in '15 and '16 combined, but he got two full years of service time.

Really, my main point was it is a big point of frustration of mine how people keep handing out 2nd, 3rd, and 4th "rookie" seasons as they see fit to explain away underperforming. Billings might not be 100% due to recovering from the injury, but I refuse to accept anyone saying it is his rookie year.