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49ers closes deal with Clevland Browns
The roomers about this deal has been floating around for a long time but now its finally official. San Francisco 49ers have traded away RB Garrison Hearst + a 3rd round pick in the upcoming draft. Hearts was a mentor to the RB in San Francisco and had 3 years left on his contract. The 49ers front office believes that Kevan Barlow is now ready to carry the 49ers running game himself and that the 11-year veteran Hearts is past his prime. Garrison Hearst has only started 3 games for the 49ers in the last two seasons but has got playing time in all 32 games. His record over the last two seasons includes 8 TD on 283 Att for 1167yds. Hearts was drafted 3rd overall in the 1993 draft by Arizona Cardinals. San Francisco has traded him to Cleveland Browns where he will have the chance to be a starter this season.
In return San Francisco will get the offensive help they have been looking for. The last two seasons Jeff Garcia has only got one real target on WR to throw at. That has made it easy for the opponents to cover Terrell Owens and close down the 49ers passing game. When Brandon Lloyd didn’t show the improvement people hoped for in the last year this deal suddenly started to makes a lot of sense. In return for Garrison Hearst and the 3rd round pick San Francisco will get SE
Dennis Northcutt.
Dennis Northcutt was drafted back in 2000 by Cleveland with the #1 pick in the second round of the draft and is in his last year of his contract with Cleveland. He has a base salary of $860.000 this season plus $40.000 in bonuses from the Browns.
Dennis adjusts to the ball very well and never drops or fumbles the ball. He can also be used as punt-returner if necessary. He is rated among the top-10 SE in the eNFL and will be an instant upgrade for the 49ers attack.
His stats from the last two season with the Browns looks like this:
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GS Targ Ctch Yds Avg TD Drop YAC
2003 11 79 48 523 10.8 3 2 93
2004 11 115 64 839 13.1 3 1 132
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Career 22 194 112 1362 12.1 6 3 225