User blog comment:Bigwolfonbase/Affirmative Action apparently it even applies to the pack/@comment-208.102.149.102-20130716140854/@comment-4091815-20130716161735

You have no idea how shows are written or how contracts work. The producers cast Sinqua but couldn't lock him in because the part was recurring not regular cast. Productions try to give actors flexibility when they can't give them more money.

Unforturnately for Teen Wolf - Sinqua was VERY popular around the time they were filming Season 2 so he was gone a lot and the writers, who finish scripts less than a week before shooting in most cases, did not know when he would be available and wrote accordingly.