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Originally Posted by nunusguy
I can't see how they keep Weaver unless they materially restructure his contract ?
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The damage is already done. He costs $3.5 in payroll to keep on the roster this season. Either the Texans feel comfortable in whoever replaces him, or they pay him for one more season and hope for the best.
With $30mm or so in cap room, there is no cap need to restructure. Weaver isn't a game-to-game injury risk like Ahman Green, so restructuring his base to bonus won't really save much, if anything. Weaver would simply have to want to accept less with little-to-no money guaranteed and assume he couldn't do better as a free agent if he refused.
Perhaps the biggest risk to the team in keeping him thru the offseason and camps would be for Weaver to get injured in "non-contact" OTAs (haha, it hurts to laugh at this) or mini- and training camp, which would send him and his salary to the injured reserve. Even still, the Texans would likely try to settle with him should that happen.
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Originally Posted by Bigtinylittle
Nice writeup Keith.
I swear I heard Weaver in a radio interview a few months ago say he will never be 100% again. He didn't go into details.
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Thanks.
I hadn't heard that myself, but it's tough to know what to make of it. There probably aren't many who are "100%" at 29 years, just goes with the sport... but if there's more to it than that, then I'd be even more surprised that Weaver is still with the team.