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 The 33-year-old veteran told the Uniontown (Pa.) Herald-Standard
that he called Steelers chairman Dan Rooney and said he is stepping
away. The team informed Polamalu after last season that it would not
offer him another contract.
Polamalu, the Steelers' first-round draft pick out of Southern
California in 2003, wound up making eight Pro Bowls and five All-Pro
teams. He won Super Bowls with Pittsburgh after the 2005 and 2008
seasons.
In 158 career games (all starts after his rookie season), Polamalu
recorded 770 tackles, 100 passes defensed, 32 interceptions, 14
forced fumbles and 12 sacks. He returned three interceptions for
touchdowns.
Meanwhile, the Steelers re-signed veteran safety Will Allen.
Allen, 32, started four games in place of Polamalu last season and
finished with 22 tackles and a forced fumble in 16 games.
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The New Orleans Saints have signed linebacker Anthony Spencer to a
one-year contract.
Spencer, 31, spent his first eight seasons with the Dallas Cowboys,
who drafted him in the first round in 2007. He recorded 33 sacks,
497 tackles and 12 forced fumbles in 104 games (67 starts).
He returned to Dallas on a one-year contract last year and played 13
in games, with 25 tackles and just half a sack.
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San Francisco 49ers linebacker NaVorro Bowman, who missed the 2014
season while recovering from a serious knee injury, is expected to
return to the field this month.
New coach Jim Tomsula said Friday that Bowman should be available
when the team conducts a pre-draft minicamp later in the month.
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San Francisco tight end Vernon Davis likes the new look quarterback
Colin Kaepernick is showing this offseason.
Kaepernick spent the past two months working on his mechanics in
Phoenix with quarterback coach Dennis Gile and two-time league MVP
Kurt Warner.
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"I didn't even know that was Colin," Davis said Friday. "No,
seriously. He was working on his dropback and I was just, 'Who is
that?'"
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The Miami Dolphins are close to finalizing a multi-year contract
extension for center Mike Pouncey, the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel
reported.
The deal is believed to be in the neighborhood of the $40 million
multi-year contract his twin brother Maurkice Pouncey got from the
Pittsburgh Steelers last year.
Pouncey, who was Miami's 2011 first-round pick, has been a Pro Bowl
selection twice in his first four seasons.
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Robert Griffin III, who enters the offseason as the starting
quarterback for the Washington Redskins, is going to work out with
some of his receivers in Florida next week.
According to the Washington Post, Griffin and a number of his
skill-position teammates will gather for four days of group
workouts.
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