Certainly more news will be made about the possibility of an uncapped year and expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement in the offseason but, for now, some players who stand to miss out on unrestricted free agency are coming to light.
Basically, if a new agreement between NFL players and owners is not reached before the end of February (the start of the new league year), 2010 will run without a salary cap. If this happens, a plethora of rules go into affect that allow teams to retain players for longer. For example, the tenure needed to enter unrestricted free agency — the open market — increases.
That means more than 200 players will be restricted free agents, giving their current teams the right of first refusal or draft pick compensation from any team that signs them away.
ESPN.com reported Thursday seven Falcons fall into this category: Tackle Tyson Clabo, guart Harvey Dahl, safety Jamaal Fudge, punter Michael Koenen, running back Jerious Norwood, guard Quinn Ojinnaka and safety Charlie Peprah (more on this and the list of other NFL players, here).
“The players that have worked hard and got to this point in their careers, need to be able to go out and see what they are worth on the market,” Clabo told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Those players deserve a chance to go do that. It will be very, very unfortunate for all of us if we are not allowed that opportunity.”
Stay tuned on this, but I wouldn’t expect anything heavy until the season concludes.
6 Comments
Wow keep clabo, dahl and keonan trade jerious and the others for some picks.
i agree with u but i like Jerious and a part of wants him to stay and another part wants him to go he is a good player when hes healthy
naw that cant even happen jerious compliment mike turner besides even if they traded jerious wat would they be trading him for only thing we dont really have is a great left corner and we already got a 1st round pick
i dont think that would be a good ideal jerious compliment mike turner
I like him too but he isn’t producing and he can’t stay healthy. He’s also clumsy. Anyway I think we should consider using our 1 pick on a WR. This is my thinking. We have a lot of rookies on D who will get better, Jerry should be back and grimes/Owens are good enough to cover a #2 receiver. So on D our needs in order are DE, #1CB and OLB. We do have a need for another stud WR. Since we have young talent on D we should try to fill the D needs through Free agency so we can have imediate impact. There are many guys out there that would fit our needs. If we pick a WR it will be easier to slip them into an already mature offense. We can suppliment our other concerns with the draft.
So after watching the game I change my stand about Jerious, he’s more of a good slot reciever than a RB. Malarkey hasn’t used him much like that this year.