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Andrew Brandt

Business of Football Mailbag: Insurance on Players, Bryce Young’s Benching and More

Young watches from the sidelines with Andy Dalton playing for the Panthers in Week 3. | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

We are in the slowest time of the year for the business of the NFL, so I thought it’d be a good time to answer your questions. I put out a call and got a lot of repeat questions, so I’ll answer the most frequently posed ones here.

There were a lot of questions about an ESPN article by Kalyn Kahler detailing insurance and potential salary cap credits. Many have asked about an inside look at this practice. Here’s what I know.

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