According to latest reports, the Chicago Bears were spot talking with Carl Carey, representative for free agent defensive end Julius Peppers. As it happened just a few days before the March 5 deadline for free agency, people could not help guessing what’s going on between the two sides.
Carey has no other active NFL client than Peppers. If the Bears were talking with him about signing Peppers, they would be on the hook for tampering NFL rules that do not allow conversations between the agents for looming free agents and potentially interested teams before the deadline day for free agency. Violation of tampering rules can result in fines and forfeiting draft picks for a franchise.
The 6-7, 283-pound defensive end was not designated with a franchise tag by the Carolina Panthers for 2010 season, so it’s almost sure that he will take off Panthers jersey by the end of the last league year to be an unrestricted free agent. And it has been reported that he is already on the free-agent watch list of several teams like the Washington Redskins, New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles.
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