Technically he was injured as he tweaked his hamstring. Just not a type of injury you imagine putting someone on IR. The biggest issue is we are in a failing season with so much of your other talented players injured you would think we would want to have more players available. It does sound sus in the situation why would you put players on IR who can play. BIG BUT here I feel Payton used to do this with rookies he liked but were not talented, at the time, to crack the top 53 but that was mostly at the beginning of the season not when were 2-7 against a division opponent.