Taco Charlton Released (Update: Claimed by Dolphins) (1 Viewer)

[saintbilly25]

When you’re named Taco, you have to be good.
This guy has really blemished tacos everywhere. I mean who messes up a taco?

They should have released him yesterday, he would have been a popular pickup on Taco Tuesday.

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

More proof that the draft is not a perfect science. I'm more interested in what Granderson brings to the table. Taco had his chance to shine and didn't.

 

[ANKOMA33]

Bust.

I don't think Charlton loves football anymore.

 

[kennydfresh]

When I'm right about a guy, I am so right!!!

 

[Nightshade]

Ex

I thought he was vastly overrated coming out of college. He’s a human named Taco, and that’s pretty much where the interest stops for me. I think he made a few splash plays early in his career, but he’s getting released for a reason. A team that needs DE depth will probably give him a shot, but I see him as a backup / rotational guy at best.

Exactly what seems to have hurt him the most isnt his 4 time, but his lack of a consistent effort. Maybe he will use this as a wake up call if he doesn't his next team (short lived) will most likely be his last.

 

[Taker597]

... Because he's terrible.

There was a lot of desire to draft him here. [/B]

I remember it being split. A lot calling him a bust.

 

[Andrus]

What I remember was that Taco was a one-year wonder in college, and even then really wasn't that impressive.

 

[webster63]

If he's waived, then he is still bound to his contract, and if a team claims him within 24 hours, they claim the contract. If a player is released, then the player is free of his contract and can sign anywhere he wants.

If a player has less than 4 years of experience, they get waived. If they have 4 or more years of experience, they get released.

After the trade deadline passes, all players get waived, regardless of experience, which helps keep competitive balance and removes the possibility of potential collusion off the table between contending teams and non-contending teams.

thanks, i thought waved was just a different form or released as far as contract goes

so if you steal a player off of someones practice squad the contract is locked in and not open to negotiate, that makes sense i guess

 

[Kenosha26]

What I remember was that Taco was a one-year wonder in college, and even then really wasn't that impressive.

I agree to some extent. I am a Michigan fan, so I watch all their games. Taco really came on his senior season, however I was surprised he ended up a first round pick. He was great at getting in backfield and providing pressure against the run and pass. But he was very impressive in games down the stretch and was our best defensive lineman in 2016, hands down. The team may have not been that good, but the defense was solid. I think he's worth a look, might be seeing the Cowboys in the playoffs and I'd like a lil extra fire!

 

[St. Geezy]

thanks, i thought waved was just a different form or released as far as contract goes

so if you steal a player off of someones practice squad the contract is locked in and not open to negotiate, that makes sense i guess

The practice squad is something entirely different. Practice squad players make something like $7000 a week or something in that vicinity. They don't have a true player contract and are free to sign with any team at any point.

 

[webster63]

The practice squad is something entirely different. Practice squad players make something like $7000 a week or something in that vicinity. They don't have a true player contract and are free to sign with any team at any point.

well that is where it all gets so confusing for me because when they wave players to resign to PS all the time, so are you saying if he clears wavers then at that point he has no contract?

 

[St. Geezy]

well that is where it all gets so confusing for me because when they wave players to resign to PS all the time, so are you saying if he clears wavers then at that point he has no contract?

Correct. Once you pass through waivers, you become an unrestricted free agent, free to sign with any team's active roster, or, if you still qualify, any team's practice squad.

 

[jessy]

Another "big time" DE prospect with a bad 40 time bites the dust. As many people here know, I absolutely hate pass rush specialists with bad 40-times.

Outside of a couple of outliers (Terrell Suggs and James Harrison), a 4.9 40-time for a pass rusher is typically a kiss of death.

I'd even go as far as to say that of all positions, pass rusher is the one that can be predicted the best using 40-times. It isn't 100% fail-safe, of course, but once Charlton ran that 4.92, I was pretty much done with him.

I don’t know much about Taco, I remember him from the draft a few years ago, hard to forget a guy named Taco.

Since he has a bad 40 time, do you think he could be moved inside?

John Randle - Vikings - started at DE and was horrible by all accounts. A coach moved him inside, a position he had never played, and he became an NFL Hall of Fame DT.

 

[Frank The Rat]

Saw a Tweet yesterday about him, said a member of the Dallas Cowboys said it didn't work out with him because he was soft, .....so literally he was cut because he was a Soft Taco.

 

[insidejob]

the saints wanted to draft him so i assume they liked him

where did you hear this? lots of fans wanted us to draft him, but I never heard the Saints say they did.