Rossum is a CB, but I don't think he's ever gotten much playing time on defense.  I wouldn't put it past Mike Martz to give him a try at WR this season.  At age 32, he's still fast, and Martz has turned defensive backs into receivers before (see Mike Furrey).

When Foster got cut I nearly wrote a Diary to catch the local pulse on that, but it just slipped my mind while I was doing something else.

I think it would be a very good signing. Pretty low risk. Obviously solid reward. Do it!

I actually view Rossum as another "safe" return man. I don't see anything special about the signing. He's just another 30-something track-record-never-awesome-but-won't-fumble return man. It always seemed to me that most all of the actual electric return guys are in the first half of their careers. Even Dante Hall, one of the most electric return men in the last two decades, seems to be just short of completely losing that special sparkle, and he's not even on the wrong side of 30.

But isn't return average kind of the name of the job? It's actually much less important to score a TD or two a year returning than it is to consistently put the offense in best field position possible.

And I would think the guy with the better average return is the guy who is going to do that.

Kick return success is obviously dependent on return coverage as much as anything, but you'd think that over a long enough period of time the sample size would even things out a little.

But yeah, if you're returning as many as 50 kicks or so a year, I'm a little more interested in what you do in those 48 that you don't hit a homerun than those 2 that you do. I think 96% of your production is generally more valuable than the other 4%.

He might give us some excitement, but that might not actually mean that he's better for the team.

Which is nothing against Rossum. I think he's a fine return man and a very good bet to be better than Hicks. I just don't believe that the stats bear out that he is a better return man despite the supposed "HR power."