[CBFF] ProFootballTalk.com - PANTHERS CUT FOSTER

[Phil DeNomme]

I wouldn't.  he's not a upgrade at all over the current crew, IMO.

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Subject: Re: [CBFF] ProFootballTalk.com - PANTHERS CUT FOSTER

I'd take'em.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Tom Shannon <tshanno at gmail.com> wrote:
> ProFootballTalk.com
>
>  PANTHERS CUT FOSTER
>  Posted by Mike Florio on February 21, 2008, 4:53 p.m.
>
>
>  So much for the Panthers trading running back DeShaun Foster.  On
>  Thursday, the Panthers cut the six-year veteran.
>
>  We always believed that a trade of Foster was unlikely.  A player who
>  is expected to be cut often is traded only when his current contract
>  is believed to be more favorable than what he would get on the open
>  market.  In such a case, it makes sense to give up, say, a fifth-round
>  pick in order to buy the contract.
>
>  But Foster was due to earn $4.75 million in 2008, the final year of
>  his contract.  So there was no reason to give up a draft pick when he
>  likely can be had on the open market for far less.
>
>  Foster was a second-round pick in 2002.
>
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