They knew going in he would require a lot of development.
With 3 more years of his rights, they must consider him a basket case if they don't keep him.
That may very well be the case & make my next statements moot.
Expectations is the most difficult aspect of this for me to wrap my head around. You take a guy in the 6th round who hasn't played football since middle school & after two off seasons you HAVE to make a decision to cut him??
Yet you take a guy at #34 overall who was so severely injured that no one knew if he would ever walk naturally again much less play football but whatever time it takes is OK.
Those two situations that are too similar in their uncertainty to have such vastly different expectations of when you decide the experiment is over.
Why did you draft RG if you weren't willing to view it as a longer term gamble? Did you really expect him to become a clear cut starter in two years?
I just don't get the risk \ reward expectations. You know roster spots are the ultimate currency. Why take these kinds of risks knowing you may be forced to flush the investment before any reasonable person would have expected the investment to produce significant returns?