Marvin Harrison won’t play for the Colts
We may have probably seen the end of the great era of Colts football.
Indianapolis’ second most popular football star (next to Peyton Manning of course…) is parting ways with the Colts, creating a lot of buzz in the process even before the 2009-10 NFL football season kicks off.
Yes, Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison has been having his problems with the Colts front office lately after team executives asked the veteran to take a pay cut. For a guy who has been one of the Colts’ most identifiable players, who ranks second in the league in career receptions and holds all of Indianapolis’ major career and season receiving records, it was understandable why the veteran isn’t too fond of the situation.
Understandably still, Marvin Harrison has already asked the Indianapolis Colts for his release even before the team decided to part ways with the star. What was the reason for the team to ask their premiere receiver to take a pay cut? Read on.
Indianapolis Colts president Bill Polian told reporters Sunday at the NFL annual scouting combine that the team was trying to rework Harrison’s deal to lower the receiver’s salary cap number from approximately $13.4 million, the highest number of any wideout in the NFL.
Harrison is scheduled to make $9 million in 2009.
The AFC powerhouse is in the middle of a salary cap crunch of sorts as of late. Next year’s cap is expected to be $123 million and Polian won’t be able to keep his prized wideout at his current price, leaving him no choice but to release him.
‘’The new cap rules, that’s not something we planned for,’’ Polian said before releasing Harrison. ‘’As a result, we have some issues with veterans, including Marvin. Hopefully, we’ll find a way to work through that. I don’t know if we will, but we hope to.’’
New Colts head coach Jim Caldwell hoped he would be able to have Harrison in his first season as head coach in Indy. Of course, it was apparent that the team was not willing to have him on the team with a $13.4 million cap number. After all, at 36 years old, he is coming off one of the least productive seasons of his career and he could no longer be a guy you can still invest that much money on.
I wonder if they’d do the same thing to Peyton Manning?
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