Charles Grant appears to be close to 300lbs.

if he doesn't respect his employer and show up in shape now, then he won't do it as a DT either.

He has time to shed the weight. If he doesn't then G Dub will handle it accordingly. I promise.

the problem is, he never should have ballooned to 300 pounds. the saints pay him to play DE.

he plays at like 285-290 routinely

you dont know what u are talking about

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and he routinely is slow and lethargic

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+10000000

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Do u actually think he's effective at that weight. Name one defensive end who is quick off the ball playing at 290lbs?

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Mario Williams is close, but he's got about 4 inches on Grant.

It's bad, and I have little faith, but Grant himself was effective in the 280s before the 07 season. And you don't absolutely have to be super quick to be an effective DE. One can use strength to get around an OT, problem is he just flat out sucks getting pressure now. I think he's having some ankle problems and more of his significant weight is in the form of fat than in the past.

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he plays at like 285-290 routinely


and he routinely is slow and lethargic. Just because he routinely plays at 290 doesn't mean he should.

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Beat me to it.

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Charles Grant appears to be close to 300lbs.

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This is pathetic if true and is a flat out shame.

There has to be something in his contract that mentions him being at a certain weight, or even in a certain amount of shape.

That wouldn't surprise me. Which is why I really think that once Orakpo dropped, we should have looked into moving up a few spots. We didn't have much ammo, but Denver had to have known that Moreno was going to be there at 14, and we could have done it for one of our 4th rounders.