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Originally Posted by WMH
I "think", and could certainly be wrong, but if you are injured then you can't just be out right cut. Waived/injured allows someone to claim you. If no one claims, then he reverts to IR. Again, could be wrong, but I believe that is the rule.
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I could be wrong too, but the way that I understand it is that (like you said) in the preseason a player has to clear waivers before he can be put on IR. A hurt player is put on waivers with the "injured" designation so the other teams have notice that he's damaged goods. If another team claims him, he goes to that team. If not, the original team can either put him on IR or negotiate an injury settlement with him. An injury settlement involves a payment to the player based on how long it is until he is expected to be able to be to return to football, and he may or may not be able to sign with another team before that date depending on the terms of the settlement. I believe that a team can't reacquire a player with whom it has reached an injury settlement for the time period that's the basis for the settlement plus six weeks.
If this is true, Bullock hasn't really been placed on IR yet, it's just a foregone conclusion that he will be at the final roster cutdown.
Kubiak said last week that Harris will go on IR so apparently they decided the risk of someone claiming him was low enough to go ahead and make the move now.