Waiver wire [Texans Cuts Posted Within Thread]

[mussop]

There are plenty of familar guys getting cut that could improve our team.


Brian Leonard, RB, Cincinnati Bengals
WOW I would love for us to pick this guy up. I really liked him coming out of Rutgers. EDIT THEY ARE NOW STATING THAT HE MADE THE FINAL ROSTER.

Emanuel Cook, SS, New York Jets has been released.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE sign this guy.

Dan Klecko, DL, Philadelphia Eagles
Undersized but great effort guy

Tommie Hill, DL, New York Giants
Out of Colorodo State so watch out

Chuck Darby, DL, Free Agent
Started a few games for Detroit last year.

Lydon Murtha, OT, Free Agent
Very athletic OL that a few of us liked in last years draft. Good ZB candidate.

Courtney Bryan, FS, Free Agent
Hes a safety and we need one. Dont know much of anything about him.

Brandon Frye, OT, Free Agent
Never understood why we let him go.

Rodrique Wright, DL, Free Agent


Darius Walker, RB, Denver Broncos
Another X Texan released.

Graham Gano, PK, Baltimore Ravens
This guy was great in college.

[mussop]

So heres the list of cuts by us today.

Brink, Alex QB 24 1 Washington St.
Campbell, Khary LB 30 8 Bowling Green
Davis, Buster LB 25 2 Florida St.
Evans, Jonathan FB 27 1 Baylor
Foster, Arian RB 23 R Tennessee
Harris, Clark TE 25 1 Rutgers
Harrison, Brandon FS 25 3 Stanford
Helms, Brett C 23 R LSU
Jamison, Tim DE 23 R Michigan
Jenkins, Darnell WR 26 1 Miami (Fla.)
Jones, Adrian G 28 6 Kansas
Leonard, Josh DT 22 R Hawaii
Nading, Jesse DE 24 2 Colorado St.
O'Neal, Deltha CB 32 10 California
Parson, Mark CB 23 R Ohio
Richardson, Matterral CB 24 1 Arkansas
Simmons, Mark WR 25 1 Kansas
Stenavich, Adam T 26 1 Michigan
Torrey, Brandon T 26 1 Howard
Washburn, Cliff T 29 1 The Citadel

[HPF Bob]

No real shocks. I hope we are able to put Jenkins on the practice squad. Brink too.

[Arky]

Originally Posted by mussop

So heres the list of cuts by us today.

Thanks for posting this. I see several that I hope represent the practice squad. Practice squad gets announced tomorrow...

[mussop]

so as of now these are the 53

62 Caldwell, Antoine * C 6-3 312 Alabama 1st
55 Myers, Chris C 6-4 299 Miami (Fla.) 5th
63 White, Chris C 6-2 290 Southern Mississippi 5th
32 Bennett, Fred CB 6-1 200 South Carolina 3rd
41 McCain, Brice * CB 5-9 179 Utah 1st
28 Molden, Antwaun CB 6-1 202 Eastern Kentucky 2nd
29 Quin, Glover * CB 6-0 203 New Mexico 1st
35 Reeves, Jacques CB 5-11 188 Purdue 6th
98 Barwin, Connor * DE 6-4 256 Cincinnati 1st
93 Bulman, Tim DE 6-4 267 Boston College 3rd
94 Smith, Antonio DE 6-4 285 Oklahoma State 6th
90 Williams, Mario DE 6-6 288 N.C. State 4th
95 Cody, Shaun DT 6-4 310 Southern California 5th
97 Okam, Frank DT 6-5 338 Texas 2nd
91 Okoye, Amobi DT 6-2 296 Louisville 3rd
66 Robinson, DelJuan DT 6-3 320 Mississippi State 2nd
92 Zgonina, Jeff DT 6-2 290 Purdue 16th
44 Leach, Vonta FB 6-0 265 East Carolina 6th
65 Brisiel, Mike G 6-5 304 Colorado State 3rd
69 Pitts, Chester G 6-4 321 San Diego State 8th
64 Studdard, Kasey G 6-3 306 Texas 3rd
3 Brown, Kris K 5-11 212 Nebraska 11th
52 Adibi, Xavier LB 6-2 243 Virginia Tech 2nd
57 Bentley, Kevin LB 6-0 245 Northwestern 8th
56 Cushing, Brian * LB 6-3 262 Southern California 1st
54 Diles, Zac LB 6-2 237 Kansas State 3rd
59 Ryans, DeMeco LB 6-1 248 Alabama 4th
51 Thompson, Chaun LB 6-2 243 West Texas A&M 7th
1 Turk, Matt P 6-5 248 Wisc.-Whitewater 14th
5 Grossman, Rex QB 6-1 217 Florida 7th
7 Orlovsky, Dan QB 6-5 230 Connecticut 5th
8 Schaub, Matt QB 6-5 239 Virginia 6th
22 Brown, Chris RB 6-3 234 Colorado 7th
43 Hall, Andre RB 5-10 212 South Florida
21 Moats, Ryan RB 5-8 208 Louisiana Tech 5th
20 Slaton, Steve RB 5-9 215 West Virginia 2nd
34 Barber, Dominique S 6-0 214 Minnesota 2nd
40 Busing, John S 6-2 217 Miami (Ohio) 4th
25 Ferguson, Nick S 5-11 202 Georgia Tech 10th
26 Wilson, Eugene S 5-10 200 Illinois 7th
76 Brown, Duane T 6-4 313 Virginia Tech 2nd
78 Butler, Rashad T 6-4 310 Miami (Fla.) 4th
73 Winston, Eric T 6-5 319 Miami (Fla.) 4th
86 Casey, James * TE 6-4 244 Rice University 1st
81 Daniels, Owen TE 6-3 245 Wisconsin 4th
85 Dreessen, Joel TE 6-4 248 Colorado State 4th
87 Hill, Anthony * TE 6-6 269 N.C. State 1st
89 Anderson, David WR 5-10 197 Colorado State 4th
11 Davis, André WR 6-1 194 Virginia Tech 8th
80 Johnson, Andre WR 6-3 228 Miami (Fla.) 7th
12 Jones, Jacoby WR 6-2 206 Lane College 3rd
17 Martinez, Glenn WR 6-1 185 Saginaw Valley 4th
83 Walter, Kevin WR 6-3 215 Eastern Michigan 7th

One will have to be let go when Robinson signs.

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

No real shocks. I hope we are able to put Jenkins on the practice squad. Brink too.

IMO Brink is gone. We have 3 veterans who can play. OK kinda play.

[Roy P]

Davis, Buster LB 25 2 Florida St. - I thought he'd have a shot

Foster, Arian RB 23 R Tennessee - Practice Squad?

Harris, Clark TE 25 1 Rutgers - James Casey made him expendable

Harrison, Brandon FS 25 3 Stanford - Finally get him outta here.

Leonard, Josh DT 22 R Hawaii - I was hopeful he'd stick

Stenavich, Adam T 26 1 Michigan - Practice Squad?

[painekiller]

Texans cuts

Released QB Alex Brink, LB Khary Campbell, LB Buster Davis, FB Jonathan Evans, RB Arian Foster, TE Clark Harris, FS Brandon Harrison, C Brett Helms, DE Tim Jamison, WR Darnell Jenkins, G Adrian Jones, DT Josh Leonard, DE Jesse Nading, CB Deltha O'Neal, CB Mark Parson, CB Matterral Richardson, WR Mark Simmons, T Adam Stenavich, T Brandon Torrey, T Cliff Washburn.

And

Waived the following injured players: CB A.J. Davis, LB Toddrick Verdell

[mussop]

I would love to see us sign Trevor Canfield, Emanual Cook, and Leonard Pope. I know we dont need another TE but man Pope has some talent and lets not forget OD could be gone next year.

[mussop]

Add 2 more to my wish list.

Cedric Peerman, RB, Baltimore Ravens

Vance Walker, DL, Atlanta Falcons

I was hoping we would draft both of these guys.

[Arky]

Interesting in who made it:

LB's Bentley and Chaun Thompson both get to stick around.

Zgonina still here.

RB Andre Hall sticks and IMO is somewhat of a surprise. (perhaps the coaches were impressed with his jackknife into the endzone yesterday).

Grossman, Busing and Martinez make it. Jenkins, though cut, has skills.... hope he makes the practice squad....

[Roy P]

I'm just hopeful that we take a look at some of the players who were cut from their teams that may be better than what we kept. Would love to get another RB like Issac Redman, but the Steelers will probably try to slide him to their Practice Squad.

Anyone notice that Sean Mahan was cut?

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by Roy P

Davis, Buster LB 25 2 Florida St. - I thought he'd have a shot

Foster, Arian RB 23 R Tennessee - Practice Squad? Yes

Harris, Clark TE 25 1 Rutgers - James Casey made him expendable Dreessen made him expendable with Casey backing him up
Harrison, Brandon FS 25 3 Stanford - Finally get him outta here.

Leonard, Josh DT 22 R Hawaii - I was hopeful he'd stick I would think PS is his place
Stenavich, Adam T 26 1 Michigan - Practice Squad? I would guess we sign two OT to the PS, Cliff Washburn is my best guess for 1 OT.

PS guess?
Foster
Leonard
Washburn
Stenavich
Richardson
Tim Jamison
if eligible Buster Davis

[mussop]

Originally Posted by painekiller

PS guess?
Foster
Leonard
Washburn
Stenavich
Richardson
Tim Jamison
if eligible Buster Davis

I hope we are going to add some players from other teams.

[Roy P]

Looking at the Bears, they cut OG Dan Buenning and OLB Marcus Freeman. I'd like the see them in Texans uniforms.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Arky

Interesting in who made it:

LB's Bentley and Chaun Thompson both get to stick around.

Zgonina still here.

RB Andre Hall sticks and IMO is somewhat of a surprise. (perhaps the coaches were impressed with his jackknife into the endzone yesterday).

Grossman, Busing and Martinez make it. Jenkins, though cut, has skills.... hope he makes the practice squad....

Bently making it is no shock. He is the special teams captain. Thompson is surprising since he never seems to be healthy. I thought Buster might win that spot.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by mussop

I would love to see us sign Trevor Canfield, Emanual Cook, and Leonard Pope. I know we dont need another TE but man Pope has some talent and lets not forget OD could be gone next year.

Pope is a pile of goo. He has done nothing at this level. We still control OD next year and if is uncapped we control him for 2 years. We are ok at ()e now and in the future to waste a spot on Pope.

[mussop]

Originally Posted by Roy P

Looking at the Bears, they cut OG Dan Buenning and OLB Marcus Freeman. I'd like the see them in Texans uniforms.

Marcus Freeman is another WOW for me. Cant believe he is available. He would definatly be a target if I were GM.

[Arky]

Originally Posted by Mike

Bently making it is no shock. He is the special teams captain.....

Well, I'm not shocked either just thought it was interesting... I think all backups/2nd team/special teamers have to be a little nervous around cut time. I'm OK with Bentley - just think he could be upgraded....

FWIW, McClain speculates that Thompson will be the cut for Dunta...

[NBT]

Cushing, Barwin, Caldwell, Quin, Hill, Casey, & McCain. Kudos to Rick Smith and the scouting staff.