Alex Grey was a guest on The Good, The Bad & The Rugby podcast this week and he explains how NFL salaries, opportunities, getting cut etc. all works. Very insightful. Unfortunately, Alex Payne was absent to you've got James Haskell as main anchor. As insufferable as that may sound, Alex's input was very interesting!
He gave an example of the cutthroat nature of getting cut in the NFL. Essentially, if they don't think LRZ is taking well to the sport for whatever reason then he's gone - and they would only have to pay the guaranteed amount stipulated on his contract. One example was a high profile quarter back that signed an $80m guaranteed 5 year contract with a team and he didn't fit in well after the first season so they cut him and just paid him his $80m.
If they can do that to someone high profile on those sort of numbers then cutting a practice squad player on hundreds of thousands of dollars wouldn't even take a second thought.
