TEMPE, Ariz. - In the latest development in a year of change for the Cardinals' defense, the team on Friday announced they have released tackle Darnell Dockett.
Dockett and the team could not come to a new agreement on his contract, as the ten-year veteran was due $9.8 million in the coming season, the final year in his current contract.
"We have been very clear about our feelings for Darnell and our desire to have him back," general manager Steve Keim said in a team statement. "After speaking with him and his representatives, we decided that this move today makes the most sense for both the team and the player and allows each to keep all of its options open."
One of those options allows Dockett to return to the roster, something that happened to tackle Levi Brown, who in 2012 was briefly a free agent before returning to the club.
Dockett suffered an ACL tear in his knee that kept him from the field all last season, until then missing only two games in ten years with the Cardinals.
"Do I want to leave Arizona? No," Dockett said in January. "But if I had to, despite being frustrated having to go somewhere else, I would. I can't say I would be happy with the situation if that decision, if it was made, but I understand this is a business. It's happened to the best of them. At the end of the day, my loyalty is to Arizona."
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