Practice Squad: Oldenburg, Bam, Mays, Jones, Thomas, Eckel, Rader so far

[cstjohn17]

Random guesses with no factual evidence are accepted.

I still like Gerema Williams for some reason, another random name: (not sure if he has signed with other team yet):

I nailed it, now batting 1 for 1000
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/reiss_pieces/2007/09/practice_squad_11.html

 

[Pats726]

I nailed it, now batting 1 for 1000
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/reiss_pieces/2007/09/practice_squad_11.html

I am not surprised...he was well liked and stayed around..but good guess...2 more????

 

[Pats726]

And what about Thomas...3rd year player??? Can he move BACK to the PSqd once elevated?? Mays as well OR has he played in the max games for him???
Just curious as it's possible BOTH could be cut re-signed to the squad....

 

[cstjohn17]

And what about Thomas...3rd year player??? Can he move BACK to the PSqd once elevated?? Mays as well OR has he played in the max games for him???
Just curious as it's possible BOTH could be cut re-signed to the squad....

The PS rules give me a headache. I may be dead wrong but I think Thomas is in his last year of elligibility. Both he and Mays could be waived, if they cleared waivers they could be assigned to the PS.

One definition from http://www.vertgame.com/rules_defs.html
Practice Squad Eligibility - A team may establish a practice squad of no more than eight players who do not have an accrued season of free agency credit** or who were on the 45-player active list for less than nine regular season games during their only accrued season. A player cannot participate on the practice squad for more than two* seasons.

*This is now for 3 seasons
** What the heck is an accrued season of free agency?

Patriots Practice Squad as of 9/12/07
C Dan Connolly
OL - Oldenburg
WR - Bam
WR - Jones
FB - Eckel
TE -Rader
CB - Williams

One more spot open, looking at the list they may want to add a LB or DL.

Possible Names
LB - Herron, Ryan LaCasse
DL - Orien Harris, Baba Oshinowo
S - Josh Gattis

Aside- I still can't believe they let Rogers leave and essentially gave his spot to Chad Brown. Good grief, someone was asleep at the wheel.

 

[cstjohn17]

Ok Radar is gone, so is Mays, Oldenburg... Eckel is up in the bigs, this means one more open spot.

I think Eckel will be cut and then re-signed to the PS for Harrison's spot but it depends on Maroney. If Eckel sticks they may want to add a TE or another offensive lineman.

Current list - http://www.patscap.com/patriotsroster.html

Practice Squad
WR Brandon "Bam" Childress (13) - 5-10, 185, 25 years
C Dan Connolly (63) - 6-4, 318, 25 years
QB David Greene (8) - 6-3, 225, 25 years
WR C.J. Jones (19) - 5-11, 195, 26 years
CB Antwain Spann (31) - 6-0, 195, 24 years
S Raymond Ventrone (41) - 5-10, 200, 24 years
DT Zach West (69) - 6-5, 305, 23 years

 

[dryheat44]

The PS rules give me a headache. I may be dead wrong but I think Thomas is in his last year of elligibility. Both he and Mays could be waived, if they cleared waivers they could be assigned to the PS.

One definition from http://www.vertgame.com/rules_defs.html
Practice Squad Eligibility - A team may establish a practice squad of no more than eight players who do not have an accrued season of free agency credit** or who were on the 45-player active list for less than nine regular season games during their only accrued season. A player cannot participate on the practice squad for more than two* seasons.

*This is now for 3 seasons
** What the heck is an accrued season of free agency?

Patriots Practice Squad as of 9/12/07
C Dan Connolly
OL - Oldenburg
WR - Bam
WR - Jones
FB - Eckel
TE -Rader
CB - Williams

One more spot open, looking at the list they may want to add a LB or DL.

Possible Names
LB - Herron, Ryan LaCasse
DL - Orien Harris, Baba Oshinowo
S - Josh Gattis

Aside- I still can't believe they let Rogers leave and essentially gave his spot to Chad Brown. Good grief, someone was asleep at the wheel.

I liked both LaCasse and Harris coming out of the draft. They seem naturally suited to play in our 3-4, plus LaCasse can be a good STer.

I think Gattis is on the Bears 53.

 

[cstjohn17]

Harris got signed to the Bill's PS last week and Gattis did end up on the Bears 53 man (via their PS).

The rules are very confusing but after looking at it closer I am pretty sure LaCasse is not eilligible for the PS (he played 12 games last year) I think the cutoff is 9.
http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_NFL_career.aspx?sport=NFL&id=4006

 

[mgteich]

Yes, we need a TE on the Practice Squad.

Ok Radar is gone, so is Mays, Oldenburg... Eckel is up in the bigs, this means one more open spot.

I think Eckel will be cut and then re-signed to the PS for Harrison's spot but it depends on Maroney. If Eckel sticks they may want to add a TE or another offensive lineman.

Current list - http://www.patscap.com/patriotsroster.html

Practice Squad
WR Brandon "Bam" Childress (13) - 5-10, 185, 25 years
C Dan Connolly (63) - 6-4, 318, 25 years
QB David Greene (8) - 6-3, 225, 25 years
WR C.J. Jones (19) - 5-11, 195, 26 years
CB Antwain Spann (31) - 6-0, 195, 24 years
S Raymond Ventrone (41) - 5-10, 200, 24 years
DT Zach West (69) - 6-5, 305, 23 years