The way the Lions are waiving players is strange
The Detroit Lions are exactly two weeks away from opening up the season with the Kansas City Chiefs. They'll have to hit the cutdown day on Tuesday before we get to that though. The Lions have already started to remove players from their roster this summer a lo of them have been removed in an […]
The Detroit Lions are exactly two weeks away from opening up the season with the Kansas City Chiefs. They'll have to hit the cutdown day on Tuesday before we get to that though. The Lions have already started to remove players from their roster this summer a lo of them have been removed in an interesting way. With an injury settlement.
An injury settlement is an agreement between the team and a player. The way it works is simple. If a player gets hurt while with the team and is expected to miss six weeks, the team will waive that player and pay them the six weeks they were expected to miss with injury. The player can sign with any team they want, but they can't go back to the team that waived them with an injury settlement until the agreed upon duration is up.
Injury settlements are nothing new. The Lions waived receiver Trinity Benson with injury settlement last summer. The weird thing is that the Lions have done it seven times this summer.
Saivion Smith, Denzel Mims, Tom Kennedy, Trey Quinn, Shane Zylstra, Jarren Williams and Mohahmed Ibrahim have all been waived with an injury settlement. Do the Lions have a bit of injury issue?
All these injuries seem to have been minor so far. All these guys are expected to be able to play football in 2023 if they find a team to go to. Some of them could be back in Detroit. It's just strange to see so many injury settlements in essentially one month. There's been 13 total injury settlements in the league since camp started in late July and the Lions account for more than half of them.
What does mean for the future? Well, there might be cause for concern that the injury bug could bite the Lions yet again. They've managed to keep most of their starters healthy apart from some bumps and bruises that shouldn't keep anyone out for the season opener. Can they do that once the season gets going?
It'll be up to new head trainer Mike Sundeen and the universe supplying some good luck to make sure the Lions keep players healthy all season.
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