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To be clear, though, not every retirement causes the return of bonus money. In fact, teams often sign veteran players to contracts with a number of years that they know will be fully reached. In such cases, the teams never seek the return of the bonus money - and likely wouldn't win in arbitration, anyway. The return of bonus money is only likely to occur when the player essentially retires unexpectedly and without legitimate reason (i.e. injury).

And this is also from the CBA rules. It clearly means as I said they ain't getting this signing bonus back unless Fairley wants to give some of it back. The main difference between him and cases like Barry Sanders rule and Chris Borland is injury or in this case medical condition. Sanders and Borland retired because they wanted to for whatever reasons (Burn out, fatigue or just plain tired of the game) whereas this heart condition is what's forcing Fairley to retire. Blame, the Saints medical staff for dropping the ball on this one!

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Posted by bbrownso

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Posted on 6/10/17 at 8:02 pm to tubucoco

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And this is also from the CBA rules.

Actually, it appears that your quoted words come from russellstreetreport.com and is Brian McFarland's interpretations of the CBA.

Here is a link

A little more light shed on the subject:
Pride of Detroit (SB Nation - Lions site)

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The Free Press’ Dave Birkett seems to imply that this was a monetary issue. We do know that the Lions asked Johnson to repay 10 percent of his $3.2 million signing bonus, freeing up $320,000 in cap space. A team press release on the day Johnson announced his retirement claimed both parties agreed to the financial terms.

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In fact, there’s a long-existing precedent for teams doing this. When Chris Borland and Anthony Davis both suddenly retired from the 49ers in 2015, the team recouped portions of their signing bonuses. The Cardinals recouped $7.5 million when Kurt Warner retired after one season into his two-year deal with Arizona (although the language of Warner’s contract made it easy to do that without any animosity).

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