Roydell Williams Could Pursue Injury Grievance Against the Tennessee Titans

by Jimmy on Sep 2, 2008 10:12 AM CDT in Tennessee Titans News

One of the agents for Roydell Williams has said they are thinking about filing an injury grievance against the Titans because his ankle is not 100%:

“We’re going to get Roydell a second opinion on his ankle this week,” agent Rick Roberts said. “Common sense tells you he was hurt and he that wasn’t ready to play. You guys [media] saw that, and we saw that.

“He was getting shots in his ankle and pushed back onto the playing field and at the end of it, they just gave him a high five, said he did his best, but just couldn’t do it. Luckily for us, that’s not the way the NFL works.”

It appears the issue here is whether or not his ankle was 100% when they took him off the PUP list earlier in camp. Roydell's camp claims that it was not.

Every player is supposed to get a physical at the time of their release. If they are healthy they sign off on it, if they aren't then they don't sign it and they can get a second opinion from a neutral doctor. If said neutral doctor determines that Roydell should not have been activated, then a grievence will be filed and all of his money will count against the Titans cap for this season. Terry McCormick reports that Roydell's base salary this season was $520,000 and with bonuses included it would be about a $1 million cap hit.

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I thought the same thing...

when Fisher said the reason they released Roydell was because he was not healthy. I didn’t think you could cut an injured player without paying a settlement of some sort. While I don’t want to see the team hurt, I think they did Roydell wrong and should have to pay.

by TNTitan89 on Sep 2, 2008 11:32 AM CDT reply actions

To me, it all depends on what Roydell said. If Roydell was pushing to get back on the field...

…then he’s probably in a tough spot. But if the team was pushing to take him off PUP, that’s different. ‘Course, it’s hard to see why the team would WANT to hurry him off PUP, especially since they couldn’t put him back on, and then for them to turn around and cut him… I mean, none of that makes any sense.

It seems likely that there is more to the story. I don’t know what that more is, but I suspect it’s not really going to be beneficial to R. Williams as it comes out. Especially since the team has so few quality WRs.

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by DannoE on Sep 2, 2008 11:57 AM CDT up reply actions

I think

That Fisher is saying that Roydell re-injured his ankle after being cleared from the PUP list.

What happened is a bummer though, regardless – both for Roydell and the Titans. He was one of the few receivers we had that had proved he deserved to be on the field.

by numbertenox on Sep 2, 2008 9:33 PM CDT reply actions