Refresher on IR rules... Very tough roster decisions ahead

[Icege]

Appreciate the explanation on this as I was wondering about it last night as well.

At this point, I'd prefer to see Williams hit the IR. idk what to do with Amini. I know that the Huddle has written him off in favour of Kelvin Benjamin's favourite teammate, "anybody," else, however, I think that he can contribute. His rookie season wasn't awful, granted he was sandwiched between two Pro Bowlers, but he worked out before getting hurt. The man had probably the best offensive lineman highlight reel ever coming out of school lol.

Will definitely get interesting to say the least the closer to cuts we get and see if we lose anybody else.

[ChibCU]

1 hour ago, Icege said:

The man had probably the best offensive lineman highlight reel ever coming out of school lol.

Not hard when you're practically blocking against high school talent/size.

[hepcat]

It's better to IR them both. Amini was a backup at best anyway. Losing Williams sucks but it's unlikely he'd be able to come back at an effective level by the end of the season. Better to bring in some healthy guys who were cut from other teams than to rely on some injured guys coming back.

[Icege]

10 minutes ago, hepcat said:

It's better to IR them both. Amini was a backup at best anyway. Losing Williams sucks but it's unlikely he'd be able to come back at an effective level by the end of the season. Better to bring in some healthy guys who were cut from other teams than to rely on some injured guys coming back.

Looking at it from strictly a long-term health perspective, I believe that Williams should be IR'd. A torn meniscus before the first preseason game can be healed and rehabbed by the time the expiration date for IR-R players hits.

Whether or not there is better value in either of those, we'll see. I think that both will remain on the roster and try to tough it out.

[Khyber53]

I wish I knew what to do, I don't. I do know that we shouldn't make any hasty decisions before playing the first two pre-season games. We need to see how replacement level our replacement guys are in real game-like conditions. We also need that time to watch other linemen around the league in those two early games.

Until then we have no real idea of what we have, what we could have, or what we are losing by having both these guys out. Williams needs to take the full year and rehab completely and should go to IR. While there is medical talk saying that Amini could be back easily by mid-season, I've got to disagree with them. As a big guy who tore his meniscus, these things can be tough to come back from and your knee just doesn't work the same way it used to. Now imagine trying to play interior lineman in the NFL while relearning how to use your knee...

Honestly, I lean to putting them both on full season IR, but if the cupboard looks bare after pre-season game 2, then we may need to put Amini back into service even with a bad knee.

Edit to add: In Amini's defense, it's tough to be sandwiched between Turnstile Kalil and Whiplash Kalil and still look like you're winning the day.

[KB_fan]

I agree with the above about waiting a few weeks and watching preseason games before deciding.  It's not the end of the world to have only 88 healthy players right now. We started with 91 due to Obada special status, and now have Manhertz, Williams and Silatolu injured.

The much harder question for me would be keeping Silatolu and Williams on the 53 at cut time and risk 2 other players we want and need. 

I'd aim to long term IR one at least. It will come down perhaps to our depth at tackle. If we can't find decent depth we may have to work towards bringing Daryl back. I'm more confident we can find solutions at guard.