Report: Eagles To Reduce Jason Peters Salary Due To Injury
BREAKING NEWS, Eagles, News, Offensive Line Thursday, May 17th, 2012
According to ESPN’s Chris Mortenson, the Philadelphia Eagles plan on reducing the 2012 salary of injured Pro Bowl left tackle Jason Peters. Peters injured ruptured an Achilles tendon while working out in Texas about a month and a half ago. They’ve already spoken to his agent Eugene Parker, and informed him that his salary will nearly be cut in half.
The new Collective Bargaining Agreement states that a team doesn’t have to pay a player who suffers a “non-football injury”, which includes any injuries that occur away from the team’s workout facilities.
Article 20, Section 3 of the CBA states: “A player who is placed on a Non-Football Injury or Illness list (“N-F/I”) is not entitled to any compensation under his contract while on such list …” According to this clause, the Eagles don’t have to pay Peters anything, but they don’t plan on going that far.
Peters was supposed to make $7.9 million in salary this season, but it will be likely reduced by $3.5 million, which is what his replacement Demetress Bell will earn.
This is going to force players to live in the city where they play, and workout at the team’s facilities. If Peters had been working out in Philadelphia at the Nova Care complex rather than in Texas, he would be entitled to make his entire $7.9 million salary in 2012.
According to ESPN, Baltimore Pro Bowl defensive end (and 2012 Defensive Player of the Year) Terrell Suggs, who suffered a similar injury as Peters that also occurred away from the Ravens workout facilities, will also forfeit a substantial percentage of his salary.
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on May 17 2012. Filed under BREAKING NEWS, Eagles, News, Offensive Line.
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PS- I love your Holier than thou reference quickly followed by telling people to get shots that you think kills them. You have a youtube of 1 Dr? Congrats. I will take his/her word over every other Dr. in the U.S.
Songs, you are not the reverand, you are the unabomber of this blog.
Unabomber… I didn’t know that Songs was Polish…. should have known with all the Boxes of Perogie’s in his shopping cart…
Now that McCoy has been signed, Songs you nothing to cry about now, like you did yesterday, about them being tightwads, or whatever you called them, because of them doing the smart thing with Peters. Honestly, other than maybe taking Wagner or David, instead of Kendricks, IMHO, I think we’ve had an excellent off-season. All we need now is a vet safety, & just have to project it on the field. If not, they all get $#!t canned. Can we get back to bitching about sports, & not this political, conspiracy $#!t. I like a good conspiracy with the best of them, but this isn’t the forum. Get we just have fun ripping each other, on who is the better fans again. It’s like romper room on here anymore. Bunch of soft, thin skinned, baby girls on here. STFU!