Is Aaron Curry worth $5.7 million of cap room to you?

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This thread is based on a couple of unwritten premises:

-The Raiders have to manage a lot of salary to get under the cap in 2012. They have two weeks.
-A lot of the players on their roster on long term deals cannot be cut for significant cap gain.
-Aaron Curry is not one of those players. He is due a $5.7 million base salary in 2012.

You'll all have to forgive my ignorance if I've missed a large part of something under the new CBA that makes what I'm about to write irrelevant, but:

Curry has 3 accrued seasons in the NFL. Normally, players who have had two teams give up on them before they play out their rookie deal are busts. Aaron Curry isn't a bust in that sense of the term. He'd be a cap casualty, and the only reason that guys who are top four picks in the draft aren't ever cap casualties in the first three years is because the team that signs them invested a huge bonus in them, and can't afford to just eat the cap hit unless they have zero use to the team. And like, claiming JaMarcus Russell's contract would have been the most insane thing ever.

Curry doesn't have zero use though, and he has no cap hit for the Raiders, who got him in a trade with the Seahawks.

He'll hit waivers instead of unrestricted free agency if he is released. The Redskins sit pretty close to the top of the waiver wire. If claimed, he costs just the base salary of $5.7 million for one year, and then is eligible to be an unrestricted free agent in 2013.

Would you claim Aaron Curry if the Raiders put him on waivers?