49er Anthony Davis Retires at 25

[Stout]

If you retire, you don't get paid any of the contract. If a player sits out and then decides to play again, they return to the team they retired from with the same amount of contract they were obligated to before they retired.


So, there is not a financial or business reward to a player for retiring. If there was, you would see it all the time.



Personally, I just think it's bad luck. But these retirements over health is going to happen more, not less.

Not true. A player must stay retired for a certain amount of time (I can't remember if it's one season or multiple), after which they become a free agent.

 

[MadCardDisease]

I feel bad for Tomsula. The dude seems like a nice guy and is keeping a positive attitude about everything when interviewed by the media. But you know when he goes home at night he cries himself to sleep on the couch.

 

[splitsecond]

On one hand, I love that it is happening to all the bandwagon loser former Raiders and Cowboys fans who jumped on in the run. On the other hand, I feel bad for long time fans who are watching their franchise be run into the ground. We ALL know what that feels like thanks to a true buffoon named Robert Sarver.

I still don't feel sorry for Dockett.

 

[juza76]

san francisco four retires ..

 

[kerouac9]

Not true. A player must stay retired for a certain amount of time (I can't remember if it's one season or multiple), after which they become a free agent.

I think a player goes on the "reserve/retired" list, doesn't count against the salary cap, and the team still controls his rights.

I only remember this because after Deion retired in Baltimore, he wanted to go somewhere else who was a contender. B-more released him from the reserve-retired list, but Schottenheimer and the Chargers claimed him off waivers before he could become a free agent with the team he wanted to join.

 

[BullheadCardFan]

Darnell Dockett: We will still win

“Don’t ask me about who’s retired and what’s going on with football this and that,” Dockett wrote on Twitter. “We will still WIN! Just watch! The story in the end will be that much better!!!!”

 

[GatorAZ]

I don't happen a problem with players retiring early and I don't disagree that teams have the right to be angry about it. If you're gonna blindside your team at least do it well before the draft and FA out of common decency.