So, what went wrong with AJ McCarron’s litigation?
Many among the NFL media thought the Bengals would win the case the backup quarterback brought to light against the team. McCarron claimed he was unfairly designated on the Non-Football Injury (NFI) list at the start of his NFL career. The Bengals felt they rightly put him there. Now, McCarron is set to be an unrestricted free agent after an independent arbitrator deemed he was unfairly put on that list.
According to Pro Football Talk, the arbitrator in the case concluded that McCarron did not receive a medical examination before being placed on the NFI list, and that the evidence did “not firmly establish that McCarron would have failed the exam.