It is May 26th and he's been released. So it's not a post June 1st cut, Arizona is taking their financial medicine now because they are dead in 2023 anyway.
Actually, teams can generally release up to two players before June 2nd with a ‘post-June 1st’ designation. It’s an accounting fiction that lets a team spread the dead money over two years -effective on June 2nd - while letting a player hit the market earlier. Usually teams use the designation in March or so, when players have a better opportunity to find a new home in FA.
That obviously isn’t the case here, as the heat of FA is long since gone and they couldn’t get anyone to trade for Hopkins, and I haven’t seen any indication the team is designating the release as post-June 1st.
They are not as they've already used their two post-June 1 slots this offseason on J.J. Watt and Rodney Hudson.
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/05/27/jimmy-garoppolos-contract-includes-waiver-over-foot-injury/
Florio got ahold of Jimmy G’s contract, which reveals that he wasnt able to pass his initial physical due to his foot and that the Raiders can cut him for it at any time with no financial hit.
Florio got ahold of Jimmy G’s contract, which reveals that he wasnt able to pass his initial physical due to his foot and that the Raiders can cut him for it at any time with no financial hit.
