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Before joining our Access Vikings team, Dan Wiederer covered Atlantic Coast Conference basketball for the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer and was named North Carolina's top sports columnist in 2010. His previous reporting experience includes covering the Chicago Bears. Follow him on Twitter @StribDW.
Mark Craig has covered football and the NFL the past 20 years, including the Browns from 1991-95 and the Vikings and the NFL since 2003. Since 2008, Craig has served as one of the 44 Pro Football Hall of Fame selectors. He can be followed on Twitter at @markcraignfl.
Chester Taylor's value on the free-agent market might have just gone up.
An already thin market of running backs, almost certainly decreased by one when the San Diego Chargers changed their minds and decided to place a first- and third-round tender on Darren Sproles. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported the story this afternoon and NFL.com has confirmed it's a done deal.
Sproles was told last week the Chargers had elected not to tender him as a restricted free agent and would allow him to become unrestricted. Sproles is a talented third-down back and kick returner but not an every down guy and thus San Diego had reservations about paying him a significant salary. Sproles is now guaranteed a salary of $7.27 million for 2010 if he remains with the Chargers.
A source told the Union-Tribune that Sproles was scheduled to visit with Kansas City this weekend and also St. Louis, Philadelphia and Washington. The Chiefs and Eagles are likely to be interested in Taylor and Sproles almost certainly being off the market figures to up their interest.
Any team signing Sproles now would have to be willing to give up a first- and a third-round draft pick. Taylor, meanwhile, is an unrestricted free agent and signing him would require no compensation being sent to the team that loses him.
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