Waiver wire and free agent folly. Who we getting?

[Donald LaFell]

2 hours ago, R0CKnR0LLA said:

I predict we'll sign someone nobody here has ever heard of, and then after a 30 second google search posters will come in to declare themselves experts on said player and impart us with their newly acquired google knowledge.

[Actionman0z]

I want OL depth, and that Ravens kicker

[therealmjl]

1 hour ago, joemac said:

Yet you have a Temple player as your profile pic? 

Unsure what point you're making here? 

[glenwo2]

1 hour ago, MHS831 said:

CBS mentions three tackles as "hot commodities":

OT Carson Green 

 

Released by: Texans
Draft status: UDFA - 2021
Positional athleticism: High-caliber

 

I had a fourth-round grade on Green just a few months ago before he ultimately went undrafted out of Texas A&M. Of course, to me, he had no business not being selected after the reliable career he had in Jimbo Fisher's Aggie program. He started 40 games in the SEC and was rarely, if ever a liability. 

 

In the preseason, Green allowed a single pressure on 44 pass-blocking snaps. Of course, the clearly rebuilding (tanking?) Texans decided to release a promising young offensive lineman. I mean, it's not as if blocking has been an issue for that team's offensive recently or anything. 

 

OT Tyrell Crosby

 

Released by: Lions
Draft status: Round 5 - 2018
Positional athleticism: Above-average

 

One of the annual guarantees in the NFL -- new coaches and GMs are content in releasing good players because they have no connection to them. Crosby is the latest example of said phenomenon. Crosby logged more than 1,100 regular-season snaps in his NFL career, the vast majority of which have come at right tackle, the others at left tackle. 

 

The former Oregon star is what every coaching staff should want to see from a Day 3 selection -- marked improvement in each season. Crosby's pressure-allowance rate went from 8.2% in 2019 (when he assumed swing tackle duties) to 4.7% last season in the largest role he'd assumed in his NFL career (424 snaps). 

 

OT Derwin Gray 

 

Released by: Jaguars
Draft status: Round 7 - 2019
Positional athleticism: Below-average

 

Gray's only received nine regular-season snaps in his NFL career -- in 2020 -- but he's been rock-solid in the preseason with five pressures allowed on 116 pass-blocking snaps. Like others on this list, Gray is much smoother on the field than his combine workout would have ever predicted. 

 

In his final season at Maryland, Gray only surrendered seven pressures on 218 pass-blocking snaps. At nearly 6-5 and 320 pounds with lengthy 34 1/2-inch arms, he has the measurements and preseason production worthy of latching on as a legitimate developmental tackle in a league that is short on quality tackles. 

 

Based on this, I want Green but will settle for Crosby.

We need more help at O-Line.

[Carl Spackler]

3 hours ago, therealmjl said:

It depends on how many Temple or Baylor players are out there

Lol I love how you and like 10 others say this and people love it, but they soil themselves when I say the same things

[Scott12345]

not excited about anybody else's cast outs

[XClown1986]

When does the fun begin? Noon?

[LinvilleGorge]

14 minutes ago, Scott12345 said:

not excited about anybody else's cast outs

You should be. There's a good chance some of them are better than some of the guys currently on our roster.

[CPsinceDay1]

Fittz my Blitz package on Madden

[glenwo2]

^^^ I don't see PJ anywhere.  You sure you weren't hacked?

[Mr. Scot]

21 minutes ago, XClown1986 said:

When does the fun begin? Noon?

Noon is the deadline for waiver claims to be placed.

After 1pm is when the league starts announcing who's been awarded.

[Cdparr7]

Jake Fromm and Forrest Lamp

[mccjeff]

Help me understand how the waiver claims works. Are you required to accept every player you put a claim in on and then got awarded? Take a ridiculous example. Say they put a claim in on the Ravens kicker but since they think that the Lions, who just cut both of theirs, are going to take him. So they put a claim in on another kicker. Turns out the Lions don't take the Ravens kicker and we are awarded both of them. What happens? Can we say yes to one and no thanks to the other or do we have to take both and cut 2 players to make spots for both of them? 

[run-run-pass-punt]

4 hours ago, Captroop said:

Michael Jordan got cut by the Bengals. Young guy. Started 19 games. He honestly couldn't be worse. 

First it was a side-gig as a baseball player, and now at this ripe old age trying to make a go of it in the NFL while moonlighting as an NBA owner. God bless 'em.