The Green Bay Packers released veteran defensive back Charles Woodson, the team announced Friday.
Carl Poston, the agent for Woodson, first told NFL.com that the club would be releasing his client.

"They're getting ready to release him. It's part of the business," Poston said. "I just talked to him. He sounds like he has a lot of football left. He'd like to play for a contender, win another Super Bowl."

Woodson was set to make $9 million in 2013 and would've counted for $10 million against the Packers' salary cap.

Charles Woodson, the 2009 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, was released by the Green Bay Packers on Friday.
Woodson, who signed a five-year deal before the 2010 season that was worth as much as $55 million, missed nine games last season because of a broken right collarbone but played in two playoff games. He moved from cornerback to safety last season because of diminishing cover skills.

"We had a good run," Woodson told ESPN 540 in Wisconsin via text message.

Woodson was the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2009 and the Defensive Rookie of the Year in 1998. He spent the first eight years of his career with the Oakland Raiders, who drafted him out of Michigan with the No. 4 overall pick.

He's the only player in NFL history with touchdowns off interceptions in six straight seasons, a feat he pulled off from 2006-11, and leads the league with nine touchdowns off interceptions since '06.

Woodson was productive for the Packers, but they have some tough decisions to make this offseason to manage the salary cap. Woodson had a year left on his lucrative deal and linebacker A.J. Hawk is under contract next year for a team that probably wants to give long-term deals to receiver James Jones, linebacker Clay Matthews and defensive tackle B.J. Raji because each of the relatively young standouts potentially could be free agents following next season.

Despite his age and recent injury, Woodson likely will be an in-demand free agent. He was injured last October but bounced back in time to defend two passes in the playoffs.

"Charles has been a stud in this league for 15 years, so whenever he's on the field with us, he's always a huge threat," Hawk said in January. "Not only is he a threat to make huge plays throughout the game, but quarterbacks, I think they know where he's at every single play. He seems to know what receivers are running before they do. And I think he has an intimidation factor as well."

Woodson had a career-high nine interceptions in 2009, picked off seven passes in 2011 and made one interception in seven games during last year's injury-shortened season.

The 1997 Heisman Trophy winner led Michigan to the 1997 national championship and has donated more than $2 million to the University of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital and Women's Hospital, where he supports pediatric clinical research. With the Packers, he was a leader as one of the best players on the team and as a mentor to younger players.

"He's like a big brother to all of us," former Green Bay safety Nick Collins once said.

regardless of what some people think of his off-field aberrations.

That power-outage was alleged killer

An appropriate way for Ray Lewis to go out. The man was a champion, regardless of what some people think of his off-field aberrations.

That power-outage was killer. It was almost like the Niners were at home at Candlestick :lol: It was a quality comeback by the niners and it looked like they were just going to run over the top. Putting up the bulk of those points while Ngata was off the field just showed how key he is to the Ravens D-line. It'll be interesting to see how the Ravens back it up next year, but it's hard to argue Flacco hasn't earned a new deal in Baltimore.

Im so disappointed by the Falcons, watched the first half before falling asleep on the couch, and the offence looked huge, Julio Jones was massive. Cant believe they just stopped.

So in a couple of weeks time, either Colin Kaepernick or Joe Flacco are going to be able to call themselves Superbowl champions.
The Mayans were right, just 6 weeks early.

It would be nice if Gronkowski could stay fit for the playoffs for once.

This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her. To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating. It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life. I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been. In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was. Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I'm looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft.

Matt Barkley will struggle to stay in the first round, had a poor season this year.

Matt Moore's a Dolphins QB, I meant Matt Barkley :lol:

I think Te'o is overrated personally. He's had a decent season but his previous years have been average.