Mike Montgomery Visits [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel] / Cochran's RFA Tender Rescinded

[nero THE zero]

Roy? Keith?

Good call.
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Here’s some more DE news out of Reliant. It doesn’t appear that the Houston Chronicle caught on to this, but the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Packers unrestricted free agent DE Mike Montgomery visited with the Texans on Monday.

Montgomery met with the team and took a physical, but so far no contract has been offered. The Packers have now extended an offer, so if the Texans are still interested - they’ll probably have to act fast.

Montgomery, 25, started eight games in 2008 opposite Aaron Kampman. He registered 59 tackles (43 solo) and 2.5 sacks. He’s 6-3 and 273 according to his NFL.com profile. Looks like he could be a very solid backup for the Texans, who as I just wrote earlier have recently rescinded their RFA qualifying offer from Earl Cochran, ostensibly (but not officially) ending any chances he’ll return to Houston in 2009.

Montgomery was drafted by the Packers in the 6th round of the 2005 draft. He played his college ball at Texas A&M.