in (maybe?) unrelated news, projected '13 UM starter Evan Smotrycz unexpectedly decided to transfer :( Brundidge too? Smotz, Brundidge and Christian the latter two weren't very surprising, but our PG depth remains practically nil at the moment
his cap hit was already in the area of $22M, and was eligible for a $27M franchise tag next year; we didn't really have much leverage if he were to play hardball this gives us much more cap space now edit: Kevin Seifert summed it up perfectly, the tremendous bind we were put in: http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/37302/digging-deeper-into-calvin-johnsons-future