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According to Albert Breer, HT’s pec muscle was 55% torn at the time he signed the extension in March. Pretty sure this qualifies him for PUP or short term IR. So either the Pats did not examine him and didn’t know about the injury (unlikely) or they knew about it (likely) and chose to play him in the hopes that it would not get worse. It was a huge blunder.
Dont'a Hightower Reportedly Placed on Season-Ending IR with Pectoral Injury
The bottomline is that having all necessary information in this case the medical staff obviously thought that working through it was the way to go. Just because it ended up badly it doesnt mean that their decision was bad at the time that it was made.