The Green Bay Packers and Martellus Bennett didn't exactly end their marriage on the greatest of terms. With fallout still being felt in various areas, the National Football League franchise will reportedly go after the bonus money it gave the tight end when he came to Green Bay.
Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, the Packers indeed intend to pursue bonus recovery from Bennett. They paid him $6.3 million up front on a three-year deal, which translates to an allocation of $2.1 million per year.
In the mind of those in charge at Green Bay, Martellus Bennett concealed a torn rotator cuff.
This continues a weird rift between the now New England Patriots talent and Packers. Bennett, since being sent packing, has claimed that Green Bay's medical stuff is not good at its job. Since then, several players still on the team, Aaron Rodgers and Jordy Nelson among them, have said the medical team is the cat's meow.
It will be incredibly hard for Green Bay to “prove” Bennett concealed anything. Not when you considered he “passed” a physical prior to the franchise signing him.
If anything, and this seems more like semantics than it does anything rooted in facts, the Packers claiming him healthy when signing him does them zero favors. It would be like buying a car after inspecting it, than being mad it broke down after you drove it a few hundred miles. Sure, you have every right to be upset over buying a lemon, but you were the one who literally checked under the hood.
In an even weirdest twist, however, instead of using that as his legal defense, Bennett has already claimed that Green Bay knew of the injury. So, uh, who the heck knows what is going on?
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