02-21-2025, 10:02 PM
(02-21-2025, 03:28 PM)Joelist Wrote: The only surprise is it was a straight release and not an injury/illness settlement.
Non-Football Injury/Illness, no protection outside of what you specifically negotiated for in your contract.
Also an injury settlement is for when a player gets hurt doing football activities during the season and you want to cut them. The doctor says "their injury will be healed in 5 weeks and then they're capable of finding a job elsewhere" so you negotiate how many weeks of their salary the team will pay until they're capable of trying out with another team, and there are no salaries in the offseason. Rankins has long been "healthy" he just needs to put back on weight, which is not an injury even if it was a football-related one.
It's NOT injury guarantees in a contract. If you don't have guarantees then you don't have any right to the money.
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