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To be clear, he wasn't! The NFL reportedly tried to get Kap to sign a waiver of employment-related claims, not just an injury waiver. So he and his team went to Plan B and held the workout at another site.ESPN Senior Writer Howard Bryant published a Twitter thread recapping the weekend's events, and here's the critical point:6) The NFL asked Kaepernick to sign a waiver that he would not sue the NFL in the event no team signed him from the workouts.The Kaepernick team countered with a standard injury form. As the issues remained unresolved, Saturday’s workout remained in jeopardy.— Full Dissident (@hbryant42) November 16, 2019To the extent the NFL's legal counsel believed that holding a workout should immunize them from any blacklisting claims, they're mistaken. We’ll see if Kap hits a roster anytime soon.

Are injury waivers enforceable?That would depend on the laws in your jurisdiction. A general answer here, will not be as good as a local lawyer’s researched opinion.However, having said that and NOT being a lawyer, so I can’t give you any legal advise, I would assume that in most jurisdictions it would be enforceable.

Normally, NFL player contracts stipulate that teams cannot just cut a player who is injured while playing or practicing with the team. They are required to continue honoring the player’s contract until the player is deemed medically cleared by their doctor. At that point, the player can resume playing or the club can cut them and would only owe money that was marked as guaranteed.The idea of a career-ending injury is actually a bit misunderstood, as almost all players are medically cleared eventually. Being cleared doesn’t mean they are still capable of playing at a high level, in which case they would be cut and their career would end. In rare cases, where a young player sustains a truly debilitating injury, such as paralysis, a team may try and negotiate a settlement with the player. This would be tricky for them as the player isn’t obligated to settle and a team would face a PR nightmare with the public if they mistreated a player who received this type of injury while playing for them in good faith.There are some undrafted rookies, just trying to make the team who have signed an injury waiver to be allowed to participate in pre-season practices. If a player signs an injury waiver, the club is not responsible for honoring the contract and can cut them immediately. Only players who are relatively unknown would be asked to sign an injury waiver, so chances are you haven’t heard of anyone this has happened to.If a player injures themselves outside of practice or a game, say they fall off a skateboard at home and severely break their ankle, the team is free to cut them and possible not even owe them guaranteed money. They could go so far as to sue the player and try to recover money from a signing bonus if the player was injured doing something where there was a high probability of being injured, like skydiving. Most contracts have language that protects the organization from incidents such as this, but everything is negotiable, and a player may be able to negotiate some further protections into their contract.