Eagles wave franchise tag on Corey Simon
Corey Simon is now an unrestricted free agent after the eagles removed the franchise tag. The Eagles are probably deepest at defensive line, and losing Simon will barely resonate for the best defense in the NFL.
The Eagles will lose Simon. Up until this point, any team that took him would have had to forfeit two first round picks, and Simon simply wasn’t worth that cost. Now, however, Simon becomes very attractive to teams that need to solidify the center of their D-line.
Simon’s tenure with the Eagles’ has been bittersweet. He’s been competent but never lived up to his potential, often reporting to camp out of shape and overweight.
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Posted on August 29, 2005 by Micah | Filed Under Eagles, Philadelphia
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Simon was a good guy and occasionally great player, but he’s made some real boneheaded business decisions. I was hoping they’d be able to trade him, but he’s been a real idiot. In the end, he really screwed himself because the Eagles seem to be the only team to have honest-to-goodness depth at DT.
Thom, how would the fact that the Eagles have good depth at DT help Simon? It seems to me that he’d be less wanted, get less pay and be less used in a situation with depth.
What I meant was, the fact that we have good depth made him expendable. Had he signed the tender, it wouldn’t have mattered - he’d be making $5.1 million no matter how much better the other 5 tackles were playing. But since he waited so long, the Eagles got to see in camp that Walker, Thomas, Rayburn, and Patterson are more than enough and we’ve still got Grasmanis and Marshall in the wings.
Almost any other team would still be anxious to have him back because they barely have 2 quality DTs, let alone 4.