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Originally Posted by jaimeg
Although I am pissed we didn't cut Brown, I don't think we can because he's injured. How does that rule work?
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The way that I understand it is that before a team can cut an injured player, they have to negotiate an injury settlement based on how many weeks the player is expected to be unable to play. For example, if the team and the player agree that he'll be out six weeks, the team owes him six weeks of salary. The player can then sign with another team, but can't re-sign with the team that cut him until after the time covered by the injury settlement (six weeks in the example). If they can't agree on a settlement, I don't believe the team has any option other than putting him on IR where he doesn't count against the roster but still gets paid for the whole season.