Looks like another botched free agent signing
Morgan Burnett has been slowed by injuries. The Steelers shouldn't be surprised.
Burnett did not practice Tuesday or Wednesday of this off week. The players don’t return to work until Monday. Burnett did some drills with team trainer John Norwig Wednesday, but he said there is no timetable for his return from a groin injury that has kept him out since Week 3. When he was asked Wednesday if a procedure would be required to repair his groin, he said: “I just take it day by day. I don’t know what’s in the future for me.”...
Burnett missed most of training camp with a hamstring injury. He returned to the lineup in time to play in the first two games, but the groin injury suffered against Kansas City in Week 2 has kept him out of the lineup since.
Burnett’s high injury rate should not come as a surprise to the Steelers — not if they did their homework before they signed him to a three-year, $14.3 million contract. Burnett’s has a long injury history, and he’s had a particularly tough time dealing with groin and hamstring injuries.
This is the fourth consecutive year Burnett has missed games due to soft tissue injuries and the third consecutive season he has missed games due to a groin injury.
A troubling pattern has surfaced the past two years when a hamstring injury has been followed quickly by a groin injury.
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/s...s/201810170129
Same failure to perform due diligence, or simply wish that an injury would not recur, that occurred with Ladarius Green.
Combine that with the Steelers repeated failures in drafting or signing in free agency defensive backs and no surprise Burnett is not seeing the field.