The trade between the Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit Lions, involving a swap of running backs Ronnie Brown and Jerome Harrison, has been cancelled due to Harrison failing his physical with the Eagles.
Back in July, the Eagles had a deal in place to send DT Brodrick Bunkley to the Cleveland Browns for a fifth-round draft pick. However, the deal fell through because Bunkley didn’t pass the physical.
Bunkley was then shipped to Denver for an undisclosed 2013 draft pick. That’s a big difference in compensation (value-wise).
Apparently, Bunkley was healthy enough to pass Denver’s physical a day or two after failing in Cleveland.
This goes to show that each team in the NFL seems to have their own protocol as to what constitutes passing a physical. What I mean is, some of the tests must be highly subjective or some teams just don’t care about a potential problem as much as other teams.
Here is the what a standard NFL physical consists of, as stated in the Collec...
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