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Good move or bad?
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POSTED 6:06 p.m. EST, November 12, 2007
COLTS CLAIM RICE
With defensive end Dwight Freeney out for a week or possibly longer with a foot/ankle injury suffered on Sunday night against the Chargers, the Colts have claimed Simeon Rice on waivers from the Broncos, according to Adam Schefter of NFL Network.
The Colts get Rice for seven games at a prorated base salary of $820,000, which equates to $337,000 over the last seven games of the year.
It could be a perfect move for Rice, since (as we heard it) Rice was blaming his move from right end to left end as one of the reasons for his inability to dominate in Denver. With Indy, Rice can slide back to the right side, in the spot vacated by Freeney.
And it's a low-risk move for the Colts. They get Rice for the veteran minimum, and as one league source pointed out it's possible that Rice's promise not to seek termination pay flows through to Indy, since Indy claimed the contract under which Rice made his commitment not to take the balance of his base salary if cut.
The development also means that most of the other franchises had a shot at Rice's veteran-minimum deal, given that a team's current record drives the waiver order. All of the other teams picking above the Colts opted to pass.
Good move or bad?