In what was quite a surprising move, the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday night released standout defensive tackle Christian Wilkins after just one season in Sin City, ESPN's Adam Schefter first reported. But the team soon followed up Schefter's bombshell with a statement of its own. And let us be the first to say: this is quite the interesting read.

The Las Vegas Raiders announced Thursday that they were releasing veteran Christian Wilkins, with reports that the organization was designating him as a terminated vested veteran and voiding his contract's remaining $35.

The Las Vegas Raiders released prized free-agent signee Christian Wilkins on Thursday, blaming the defensive tackle for not giving the organization an acceptable recovery plan for his broken foot. Wilkins was injured in Week 5 last season and had some sort of setback in his recovery that took him out of offseason practices and landed him on the physically unable to perform list shortly before training camp opened Wednesday.