"I got a call late in the evening yesterday from my agent and he said he was hoping to get it done," [Bob Sanders] said. "I'm excited, very excited about it -- knowing they want me around here makes me happy."

"It has not healed," said [Rod Smith], who's been out all season. "It's not healing at all.

"Honestly, I don't even like walking on it," he said. "It's that bad right now to me, and it's a matter of the hip socket has been bone-on-bone for a while. That's (difficult), especially trying to play pro football on it. And, honestly, I think I did for a while without knowing it was probably doing more damage to it than good."