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Link to Reiss’s actual article. Kind of vague you are right, BUT what surprised me was that outsiders flagged a torn labrum, stress fracture in his foot, and the “knee cleanup” in question. What Reiss wrote left the door open that the knee wasn’t a known issue.

To me, labrum, foot, knee = “we aren’t paying you fully of you miss time for those. “ I assumed that was standard for rookies with medical issues.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49046571/why-new-england-patriots-gabe-jacas-contract-absent-team

I can see it being contentious about pre-existing conditions. After all coverage for those is still screwing up our national healthcare policy.

But I’m also taking the labrum and foot issues with a grain of salt. Those are reportedly findings from two other teams, with the evaluation that they might potentially cause future problems that might require surgery. Lots of hedging, from examinations designed to protect their team interests by finding every potential problem. Past player evaluations have shown that one team’s medical staff can find something problematic when another team’s staff finds it no problem.

I’ve been wondering if something came up during all the pre-draft activities and examinations that resulted in him scheduling a routine cleanup, thinking it’s NBD so not putting out a PR release announcing it to the world, and somebody in the Pats’ FO getting a hairbecause they weren’t told. It may not even be Vrabel making waves about it, which would explain his annoyance over the issue.