TAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers cut cornerback Alterraun Verner on Thursday, freeing up $6.5 million in salary-cap space two weeks before the start of NFL free agency. The move also frees the Bucs from another big free-agent contract that never quite panned out for general manager Jason Licht.
The wheels had been in motion for this move for some time with Verner, who signed a four-year deal worth $25.5 million in 2014, and was scheduled to make $6.5 million in 2017, the final year of his contract in which there was no more guaranteed money.