Brees still in shock

Sproles was brought in because he could do so many things so well. Solid runner in spot duty, excellent pass receiver, punt returner and kick returner. His all-purpose yards (rushing + receiving + punt and kick return yardage) in 2011 was an NFL record 2696 yards. It dropped to 1577 and 1273 yards in 2012 and 2013 respectively. If that's not a drop in production, I don't know what is.

As for it being a "cap move", at the time of the trade we had already extended Pierre Thomas two years and signed Jairus Byrd and were still under the cap.