AJ on His Contract

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(11-07-2019, 08:22 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: He's played in over 10 games ONCE in the past 4 seasons. 10, 16, 9, 0. He's also nearly 32. As players age, they get injured more...not less.

History is on the side of him being injured.

And why would the team extend him now and shut him down? That makes zero sense. They need to see that he can actually be healthy and play again before they invest long-term.

He's not even worth the FT anymore.  How can you pay $17 mil guaranteed to a guy who can't recover from a sprained ankle in 14 weeks and counting?  It would be dumb to FT him.  He hasn't played a game in over a calendar year.

Bottom line is, AJ is either too injury prone and slow too recover to cut it in the NFL anymore or he's a fraud faking an injury to try and strongarm his way into a contract he doesn't deserve.  Either way, you can't bring him back.  He's become a distraction and he hasn't produced.

Put him on IR and let him sign his one year prove it deal somewhere else next year.  I think he'll be surprised how thin the market is for a 32 year old WR who went on season ending IR with a sprained ankle he suffered in July.