Al Harris will always be a Green Bay Packer. He can finish his career somewhere else but he will always be a Packer and will also be a surefire inductee into the Green Bay Packers’ Hall of Fame.
The Packers made the right decision to release Harris though, with the defense playing like it is and rookie Sam Shields entrenched as the nickel back, there was no room for Harris. If you are going to be a fourth cornerback you are going to have to play special teams and Harris isn’t capable of that any longer. The bottom line isn’t that the Packers didn’t have room on the roster for him, it was they didn’t room on the defense for him.
No Packers’ fan will ever forget Harris’ pick-six against the Seahawks – it was classic Harris. In his eight years in Green Bay Harris made two Pro Bowls and probably should have made more, he was the Packers shutdown corner for most of those years.
Harris gave the Packers the prime of his career and was a class act all the way. Respect.