Alford cleared waivers

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(09-03-2016, 11:29 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Sorry Nate, but I am calling revisionist history here.

Everyone in the world expected the Bengals to give him a 2nd round tender which was $2.18m. Instead the Bengals went cheap at the lowest $1.43m tender and predictably he was gone and didn't even count towards a compensation pick (if you tender someone and decline to match an offer, they don't count). $750,000 was all it took to keep him... nobody who had to live on their friend's couch to make it in the NFL at the age of 28 or whatever is going to turn down $13.6m for $1.43m. Let alone when they have a child. So I feel like that's not haunting him at all. He never has to work again after the NFL and his child is taken care of before his even shorter than normal NFL career ends.

Instead he put up 63/824/2 for the Browns and the Bengals enjoyed having Armon Binns, Brandon Tate, and Greg Little starting games for them that year.

The next year they tendered Lamur at the 2nd round level almost certainly due to this situation.

I was working a job in Pittsburgh with Andrew Hawkins' brother and 2 guys he went to HS with when he got that deal with the Browns and I assure you they were pretty happy for the giant raise and in no way upset that he gave up some sort of guaranteed SB win by going from southern Ohio to the north.

Also in Pittsburgh, I had a student worker (from another job) who went to school with Gio.  Pittsburgh, I tells ya.