Redskins Free Agents Signings Thread

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Originally Posted by chrisl13

Ryan Clark is looking more and more likely. Not my first choice but we have minimal options.

RYAN CLARK
Since it began the player-safety crackdown in October 2010, the NFL has legislated Clark’s strengths as a player out of the game. A physical, big-hitting safety who was an intimidating presence in the deep-middle of the field, Clark cannot even attempt to play as he did in helping the team win a lot of games during his first four-plus seasons here. Now an unrestricted free agent who will be 35 in October, Clark would appear to be a guy the Steelers will move on without. The way the game is legislated now, free safeties are more valuable if they’re ball-hawks instead of big-hitters.

Steelers by position, pre-free agency: Safety

Ryan Clark, however, looked old. Clark has obviously seen the writing on the wall himself. That was clear when Clark spent much of last off-season in Bristol, Connecticut working for ESPN. Clark is a free agent, and I wouldn’t expect to see him playing this year.

State of the Steelers: Safety » Steel City Blitz

Wouldn't be excited about a declining 35yr old safety filling a leadership role to fix our woeful safety position... But if it happens it happens..