Ray McDonald has sure been in the headlines this season. After getting arrested in August on a domestic violence charge, McDonald was suspended and now is under investigation of a sexual assault case.
McDonald was cut from the 49ers on Wednesday. Now that the NFL came out with a new policy, McDonald wouldn't have played anyway, but the 49ers had to make this move.
The NFL has yet to speak specifically on McDonald's incident. "We are looking into it," league spokesman Greg Aiello said.
USA Today's Christine Brennan made a great point regarding McDonald's departure. Brennan wrote,"Even though McDonald's banishment was as swift Wednesday as Rice's was in September, the significant difference was that this time, there was no video. NFL teams apparently don't need that anymore. Nor do we as a culture."
There isn't much to be said about this topic regarding punishments anymore. The NFL has taken a zero tolerance policy, and it seems the teams are 1 step ahead in that zero tolerance with doing the dirty work of cutting and/or releasing players based on domestic violence and other serious cases.
If the 49ers didn't have enough personnel issues heading into the offseason, they have 1 more and that's filling McDonald's spot.