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Hey Everyone, many thanks to this community who’ve I enjoyed reading as (mostly) a lurker over the years. Hope you’re all hanging in there these days.

I’ve a question as to how the various levels of Overall Health affect player performance - and really, when you get down to it, at what level should you move on from a player?

Here’s the situation, I’m in 2012 and was lucky enough to sign Terrell Suggs who was not franchised in the first offseason. What an absolute monster he is blitzing from ROLB.

At the end of the season he will be 29, and have 1-year remaining on a longterm contract- normally when I look to draft-day trade those players who I expect might be too expensive to re-sign.

Under normal conditions, I wouldn’t dream of moving on from a player like Suggs- he wrecks opposing offenses game in and game out- however, at this stage, his Overall Health has dropped precipitously, and now sits teetering at 72.

Is it time to cut bait?

Over the years I’ve seen that a number of good players wind up unsigned in FA once their health is in this range, and of course, below an Overall Health of 80, a player is listed on the Injury Report as Probable, etc.

But are there real impacts in terms of gameplay? What sort of penalty do his attributes suffer at this (or increasingly worse) leves of health? Is he more likely to suffer a longterm injury?

Any insight anyone can provide into how Overall Health impacts performance on the field?

It is greatly appreciated- after all this time I can still have some glaring blind spots of in-game knowledge.

Thanks, everyone.