2010 NFL Off-Season Rumors and Reports (Week 5)

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis

They let him walk because he had a no-franchise tag clause in his contract if he made the Pro Bowl [and he wanted to be paid big, which they couldn't do or didn't want to do]. If they could have done so, they would have franchised him again.

NFL News Feed: No Franchise Tag For Haynesworth - Mark Maske

Exactly- they could have paid him, they just didn't want to. My point. They let him walk.