JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Pinching pennies wherever they can, the Jacksonville Jaguars cut veteran safety Carnell Lake on Sunday, a move that will save the team $500,000 this season and about $2.3 million in 2002.

	Lake

Backup quarterback Jamie Martin also got cut, along with four draft choices in this, a season in which the Jaguars needed several rookies to make the team because of their tight salary cap.

The Jaguars signed Lake to a four-year, $18 million contract in 1999 and he had a Pro Bowl season, as Jacksonville made the AFC title game. But he missed all of 2000 with a foot injury, and when the Jaguars decided in June to keep him on the roster, it came as a mild surprise because it counted an extra $300,000 against the cap.

Lake had a hamstring injury that slowed his recovery in training camp. That, plus the rapid ascension of seventh-round draft pick Marlon McCree, made the 13th-year veteran expendable.

Coach Tom Coughlin said this move, like all the cuts he made, was "weighed on football first, then weighed on salary."

Lake spent his first 10 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Jaguars signed him in 1999, when they were looking for a missing piece to their Super Bowl puzzle.

"He was brought here for leadership in a secondary that I thought needed it," Coughlin said. "It was a football team that needed to point to an individual who had been there, who was an exemplary pro. Now that he's gone, some of the younger guys need to do that."

The Jaguars will save up to $300,000 by cutting Martin and keeping Jonathan Quinn as the backup quarterback. Playing for the Berlin Thunder, Quinn led the NFL Europe in passing yardage and touchdowns, although Coughlin said neither Quinn nor Martin played well in training camp or the preseason.

"I thought Jon is a bigger, stronger athlete who will also be the holder," Coughlin said.

The Jaguars should sign a third quarterback Monday.

Among the draft picks waived were offensive lineman Chad Ward (sixth round), receiver Richmond Flowers (seventh), punter David Leaverton (fifth) and Randy Chevrier (seventh), who was drafted in the seventh round to be a long snapper.

Only five of Jacksonville's 10 draft picks made the roster. Four undrafted rookies were on the roster as of Sunday.