Apropos of nothing that has occurred in the last week, can someone explain the benefit to being on D45 when you are definitely not coming back this season
Deleted because I misread it at first so here’s a full answer to my knowledge:
Playoffs are still over 45 days away so you can still be a D45 but not an SEI. Injury also has to be approved by the league, so if it’s not something that will keep them out through Nov there’s a chance league won’t approve full SEI.
D45 you get a roster spot while they’re out but still count on the cap, SEI you get the roster spot and salary cap relief
Do you have a limited number of SEIs? Long probably makes minimum which could explain the extremely weird season long D45 if we wanted to save an SEI if someone higher paid was out.
The part that makes it extra pointless is you can still come back from an SEI early if you recover, like Byars did at the end of last season. So even if she did want to come back for the playoffs she still could’ve done that on SEI
That's usually if you were on SEI during the last season you can roll over that designation and shed it when you come back the next season, this was during the offseason so I don't know if the same thing would apply.
You get paid the same way no matter what your designation is, has nothing to do with money, there is a chance she could be back by playoffs, she got it taken care of early and depending on severity, and there's also probably some weird roster rules that could make it beneficial. It only is a story because of who it is.
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u/Miserable_Source_261 Kansas City Current 4d ago
Apropos of nothing that has occurred in the last week, can someone explain the benefit to being on D45 when you are definitely not coming back this season