James Hurst retires

Infoman said
So just based on the timing... The team likely told him he wasn't being brought back very recently... Which means they have a plan in place via hand shake deals with FA Lineman after the draft should they not be able to draft a potential starter at 14 or 45 (or both)... Which I think has been the plan all along... so this doesn't change much IMO.
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I mean, he was under contract. Seems like it would be a dumb move to tell him that just before the draft so that it looked like they had even more needs on the OL.

But, I agree it likely has no effect on who they take in the draft. They needed to upgrade from him anyway and he wasn't going to play OT except as depth.