A player’s value to his team is a moving target during the NFL offseason. It sways due to a number of factors, with recent production, age and the structural integrity of football bodies chief among them.
Arizona Cardinals defensive end Darnell Dockett is a veteran whose employment status teeters with this question: How easily can he be replaced?
Unfortunately, he’s at a disadvantage after that question was answered throughout an entire season. What we saw in 2014 is that Dockett indeed has value, and the Cardinals certainly could have benefited from his services. But the gap between the Cardinals defense with and without him still isn’t nearly enough of a chasm to justify Dockett’s price tag in 2015.
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