I have never said the “injury means nothing”. Again you rely on mischaracterization to prop up your poorly argued point.
its also obviously wrong that every DB hits another player “play to play”. The best of them are credited with 80 or less combined tackles per year. Sure they may score some hits that aren’t recorded as such, but on the majority of snaps, CBs are in zone or man covering a receiver who isn’t targeted by the QB.
White is familiar with this Defense. How’s that working out for the Bills?
Hyde had the same surgery after his injury in 2022, yet he “came back from it” in 2023…to the Bills no less. And the he was re-signed AGAIN as a feee agent to the Bills in 2024. He was just too old to be effective anymore, like Tre White.
Williams did NOT have a spine stabilizing surgery. But the Bills did take him back after this in 2016 but after another injury, he was not cleared and retired. Another inappropriate example. All 3 players you have described received not “the kiss of death” after their surgeries, but lived to play again.
Timing? He’s a veteran who would cost little to nothing and can be expected to learn the playbook (it’s the middle of the season). Isn’t that what is assumed every time a team signs a player mid season?
Anyway, ultimately your point is moot, as experts have demonstrably disagreed with your assessment and descriptions of that surgery and have cleared him to play.