Reduced to a role player last season, Randy Moss still made it to a with the San Francisco 49ers. If the team returns to the game's biggest stage next season, the wide receiver likely will not join them.
It can't be called a surprise. The 36-year-old Moss totaled just 28 receptions all season. Absent from his game were the speed, power and elusive feet that had terrorized defenses during most of his 14-season tenure in the NFL.
Moss was widely praised by his 49ers' coaches and teammates as a positive force in the locker room and meeting room. He's always been one of the smartest players around, and it's .
If it is, indeed, the end, we're sure to see Moss again on some August day in Canton, Ohio.
UPDATE: Moss thanked the 49ers in a tweet Saturday, indicating his time with the team is over:
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