re: Report: Saints WR Michael Thomas Expected to Return to Team for 2022-23 Season

I am not too worried about MT playing. I believe there were a lot of things playing into his decisions that kept him off the field in 2021. His injury was real and his delay in the surgery route is understandable if you look at this from what every day people do. The rush to surgery would have been for football and not so much for what is best for MT. Add into that, that there were most likely doubts about what the offense was going to look like for 2021 after brees and not a good supporting cast of receivers. Why rush back and possibly risk reaggravating the injury or develop other injuries due to compensating for the primary injury?

He had the money and the leverage over the saints to make a best for MT decision and that is not his fault. Lesson learned about having to always restructure contracts for cap space.