When AJ McCarron won his grievance on Thursday, allowing him to become an unrestricted free agent this March, questions emerged. Specifically, what were the arguments that were used that convinced the arbitrator to rule in McCarron’s favor.
According to Pro Football Talk, Dr. Marc Galloway, currently the team’s head physician, believed that McCarron “couldn’t play football as of September 2014” because he didn’t believe that ‘“it was in [McCarron’s] best long-term interest to play football in September.’ Dr. Galloway admitted that, if McCarron had said he wants to play in September 2014, Galloway would have allowed him to play.