So if I’m reading the contract information correctly, he only gets his per game bonus if he’s active that week. So say he somehow not ready for week 1 because of his neck. He will be inactive and he won’t get his bonus that week. That sounds like a clause for pre-existing neck injury even though it’s not specifically stated that way.
I guess what those tweets mean is if the surgery/procedure goes horribly wrong and he can’t play this year we can’t cut him to avoid the contract but in that case we should still have the option of putting him on IR and avoiding the 7.99m bonus for being active on gamedays.