I think they reach an injury settlement with him in March making him a free agent. He would then try to sign with another team if he becomes healthy enough to play again. Stephen Davis is an example of a player doing this. Domanick’s base salaries for the next three years are 3,340,000, 4,180,000, and 4,550,000. His cap charge is going to be higher still because his signing bonus is spread out over the length of the contract and those numbers do not contain any bonuses he might earn. There is no way he makes the team at that salary. They can not cut him because of the huge cap hit. If they wait too long, they have to restructure the contract instead of doing the injury settlement.