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Saints release Brandon Marshall

Another big-bodied wide receiver just saw his time with the Saints end before he ever appeared in a game for the team, as New Orleans cut BRANDON MARSHALL on Wednesday, one month after signing him. Marshall was never the team's first choice at the position, but fellow signee Dez Bryant had suffered an Achilles tear in practice before he could make his season debut. The next vaguely similar player to try his luck will be tight end ERIK SWOOPE, apparently, as the Saints have claimed him after he was waived by Indianapolis earlier in the week. Swoope will now draw superficial comparisons to one-time Saint Jimmy Graham -- both played basketball at the University of Miami (FL) and neither had much of a pre-NFL football background -- but he obviously has a long, long way to go before he will be compared to Graham on the field.

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