LOL Well I guess that answers the question about whether or not he'll start!
Kinda makes you wonder about the injury, especially considering Kubiak's strange description of it. There's more to this I think. Elflein was a terrible pass blocker, but one of the highest graded run blockers on the team...and he's not even worth keeping as depth? Over Dozier? Samia? Jones? Hinton? It's not like he had a huge salary either.
I wonder if they maybe asked him to play on the left again and he said no.
I am surprised. Can't be on an expensive contract. Better than Samia. And if he walks at the end of the year and gets signed by another team, possible (though unlikely) draft comp.
All considered, I have to believe that the trainers had little to no faith in his recuperation from the various injuries...and his backslide was monumentous.
I'm surprised they didn't keep him around for depth, but maybe injury concerns and knowing that they'd move on from him after this year was enough. He showed a lot of promise early in his career, but whether it was injuries or other issues, he was never able to build off of that early promise. Maybe a change of scenery will be good for him.
