 NFL teams are not required to pay base salaries to players placed on the reserve/non-football injury or reserve/non-football illness lists.Willis McGahee spent his entire rookie season on the Buffalo Bills' non-football injury list due to the major knee injury he sustained in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl while in college.New England Patriots tackle Marcus Cannon began his rookie season on the non-football illness list as he recovered from chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2011.