toffee
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Bryan Mone is injured, and he wasn't great before the injury. Why are we holding on to him? Any insights?
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Could be. He's younger than Woods and bigger than Poona (I said bigger not better). So maybe that's why too. Personally, I'd rather they had kept one of those guys over Mone.May be his contract? We let Woods and Poona go, and kept him?
Came to post this. I surmise the Seahawks would love to waive him, and take the savings to get a healthy player, but there are rules for waiving injured veterans, and guarantees for injury baked into the contract that can be handled with a potential settlement.Teams can't simply release injured players. They need to be medically cleared first or the team needs to reach an injury settlement with the player. If a team "waives" an injured player then what really happens is that other teams get a chance to claim him, and if nobody does then the player goes to the original team's Injured Reserve list. Remember how we didn't release Kam until the 2019 off-season even though he had the neck injury in 2017? If Mone's injury turns out to be career ending then we will likely keep on the roster until next fall after which we'll waive him with an injury settlement.
Often contracts have unpublished clauses that pay less when a player is on the injured reserve list. There are different minimum salaries for active players and inactive players, and often a contract will include both. It doesn't benefit the agents to talk about the lower values so we often don't know about them. Mone's contract on OTC and Spotrac may not accurately reflect these "up-down" values.
Exactly this. There was an article on the topic a few months ago. They basically realize zero savings in cutting him at this point because of his injury. So they are better off seeing how he heals and then plays and hope all goes well.Came to post this. I surmise the Seahawks would love to waive him, and take the savings to get a healthy player, but there are rules for waiving injured veterans, and guarantees for injury baked into the contract that can be handled with a potential settlement.
Long story short, they are stuck with Mone for 1 more year before it makes sense to cut him. Just gotta hope he can contribute some tonwards the end of the season in the meantime.