Getty ImagesSoon, we’ll know where the career of defensive end Jason Babin will continue.
By 4:00 p.m. ET, any team that wants to claim the balance of his contract (it runs through 2015) must submit a waivers claim. The NFL then will assign Babin to the team with the highest priority.
Per a league source, the Eagles fielded multiple calls from potentially interested teams. Philly benefits if someone claims him; if Babin goes unclaimed, he can recover the balance of his base salary from the Eagles.
He’s due $1.69 over the final five weeks of the season.
If he’s not claimed, Babin will become an unrestricted free agent. Our guess is that someone will claim him. It’s a low-risk and possibly high-reward move for a player who had 18 sacks in 2011.
UPDATE 4:15 p.m. ET: Per multiple reports, Babin has been claimed. A league source explains that, even if he hadn’t been claimed, the Eagles wouldn’t have owed the balance of his contract for 2012 because Babin already has received termination pay. Under the CBA, a player can elect the balance of his salary as termination pay only once in his career.
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A buck sixty-nine owed? Wow, he HAS had a bad year!
For a less than 2 dollars, I’d make a waiver claim and put him on my backyard football team.
Babin is vastly overrated.
I wonder since Grigson knows him if the Colts will take’em?
Come on Patriots!
Patriots have injury to Chandler Jones and PED suspension for Jermaine Cunningham and are thin at 4-3 DE position.
Next up is Trevor Scott or Brandon Deaderick, so putting a claim in on Babin could make sense for a stop-gap measure.
Many have claimed Babin only excelled in the “wide 9″…didn’t he have double digit sacks for the Titans a couple years ago?
18 sacks (solo) in 16 games do not sound overrated to Pats nation. We’ll be more than happy to have him.
I see why the Eagles let him go now. That contract must be loaded on the back-end if he’s only making $0.34 per game.
To the Jags
the redskins have put a claim in for him. hope we get him he would def help the pass rush on nickel situations
Adam Schefter is reporting it’s Jacksonville.
He is a Jag now.
Schefter is tweeting that the Jaguars claimed him.
One trick pony… And that’s only when he cares.
Jaguars. LOL
he had double digit sacks for the titans with jim washburns wide 9. Babin followed washburn to philly.
The Jags claimed him? Why bother?
JAGS
He has had 2 big seasons, 2010 and 2011. I have two questions:
1. Why is this dude going to be playing for his sixth team in eight seasons?
2. Why did he not produce until he turned 30?
Red flags, in my opinion, but if I could find satisfactory, believable answers to those two questions I would claim him.
The titans also ran the wide 9 under Washburn. Babin benefited from his one trick pony scheme
Colts could use him with their losses along the line this year.