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-- Chargers Free Agency Update --
Fri Jan 26, 2007 --from FFMastermind.com
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports Chargers OG Kris Dielman helped get C Nick Hardwick and OT Marcus McNeill to the Pro Bowl. Among the top guards in the game, Dielman becomes an unrestricted free agent at 9 p.m. PST on March 1. Talks between his agent and the Chargers have broken off, but both sides expressed optimism here this week. “He always has been the top priority,” GM A.J. Smith said. “He knows it. His agent knows it. . . . I'd like to see it get done.”
In addition to Dielman's fate, there is another game of chance Smith must play with Turner. “My dilemma is do I want to keep him for a year and have a great backup and then have him walk away in free agency?” Smith said. Other teams – both New York franchises among them – have made it known they are interested in Turner. The question is whether one of them will try to entice Turner from Smith before seeing what tender Turner receives. As a restricted free agent, Turner will get a tender from the Chargers – either a second-round, a first-round or a first-and-third-round tender. Those tenders would guarantee him approximately $1.3, $1.8 or $2.5 million, respectively, and require any team signing him to a long-term contract to give the Chargers a corresponding draft pick or picks. If Smith were to give Turner a first-or second-round tender, it is likely teams would be lining up to try to sign him.
Would be very nice to snag him but I have a feeling he goes elsewhere..
Fri Jan 26, 2007 --from FFMastermind.com
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports Chargers OG Kris Dielman helped get C Nick Hardwick and OT Marcus McNeill to the Pro Bowl. Among the top guards in the game, Dielman becomes an unrestricted free agent at 9 p.m. PST on March 1. Talks between his agent and the Chargers have broken off, but both sides expressed optimism here this week. “He always has been the top priority,” GM A.J. Smith said. “He knows it. His agent knows it. . . . I'd like to see it get done.”
In addition to Dielman's fate, there is another game of chance Smith must play with Turner. “My dilemma is do I want to keep him for a year and have a great backup and then have him walk away in free agency?” Smith said. Other teams – both New York franchises among them – have made it known they are interested in Turner. The question is whether one of them will try to entice Turner from Smith before seeing what tender Turner receives. As a restricted free agent, Turner will get a tender from the Chargers – either a second-round, a first-round or a first-and-third-round tender. Those tenders would guarantee him approximately $1.3, $1.8 or $2.5 million, respectively, and require any team signing him to a long-term contract to give the Chargers a corresponding draft pick or picks. If Smith were to give Turner a first-or second-round tender, it is likely teams would be lining up to try to sign him.
Would be very nice to snag him but I have a feeling he goes elsewhere..
