Beaver County Times
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Steelers' free agents for 2012
UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS
QB Byron Leftwich
QB Charlie Batch
QB Dennis Dixon
RB Mewelde Moore
WR Jerricho Cotchery
T Max Starks
OL Trai Essex
T Jamon Meredith
NT Chris Hoke
CB William Gay
CB Anthony Madison
P Dan Sepulveda
P Jeremy Kapinos
An unrestricted free agent is a player who has completed four or more accrued seasons of service and whose contract has expired. He's free to negotiate with any team.
RESTRICTED FREE AGENTS
WR Mike Wallace
TE/FB David Johnson
C/G Doug Legursky
G Ramon Foster
CB Keenan Lewis
S Ryan Mundy
A restricted free agent has three seasons of service and receives a "qualifying" offer from his current team. He can negotiate with any other team. But if the restricted free agent accepts an offer from a new team, his old team has a "right of first refusal" where it can match the offer and retain him, or choose not to match the offer, in which case it receives one or more draft picks for the upcoming draft from the player's new club.
EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS FREE AGENTS
RB Isaac Redman
NT Steve McLendon
An exclusive rights free agent is a player who is not under contract but only has two years of service. If his current team makes him an offer at the three-year minimum NFL salary, he must take it or leave the NFL.
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