Player Notes

There were no significant surprises Tuesday afternoon as the Baltimore Ravens cut down their roster to 53 players. They kept 25 offensive players, 25 defensive players and three specialists, the exact mix they prefer. No position was left with improper numbers.There were no veteran cuts that came out of nowhere. General manager Eric DeCosta didn’t make any trades. All in all, it was a predictable cutdown ...

Among many out-of-nowhere facts about, well, out-of-nowhere Geno Smith: He was an English major in college.It’s been more than a decade now since the Seahawks quarterback who surprised the league in 2022 with a Pro Bowl season after seven years on NFL benches was studying in college. That was while he was starring at West Virginia through 2011.Why English?“I love to read and love to write,” he said ...

When Jaxon Smith-Njigba was told he needed wrist surgery, he informed Pete Carroll he’d be back on the field right away.When doctors told the Seahawks last week’s operation in Philadelphia to repair a broken bone in the rookie wide receiver’s left wrist went well and that he would be practicing again in about two weeks, Smith-Njigba told his team he’d be back sooner.So the smooth first-round draft ...

RENTON — When the Seahawks reconvened for practice Wednesday afternoon after two dizzying days of cutting down their roster and starting to build it back up, the team on the field looked almost as it had all of training camp.Of the 66 players at practice, all had been with the team at some point during camp.“Yeah, we really liked our group,” coach Pete Carroll said. “We were hoping to keep as many ...

Roster cut-down day used to be stressful around Santa Clara.Making the 49ers the 53ers meant cutting NFL-caliber players. The rest of the NFL kept an eye on who was jettisoned from Santa Clara, knowing that the Niners’ roster was the league’s deepest.San Francisco’s trash has proven to be other teams’ treasure.In 2020, the Niners cut Jauan Jennings (but were able to sign him to the practice squad). ...

SANTA CLARA — Three undrafted rookies who impressed in 49ers’ training camp and the preseason got claimed off waivers Wednesday, a day after they failed to make the Niners’ initial 53-man roster.Cornerback D’Shawn Jamison got acquired by the Carolina Panthers, and offensive linemen Keith Ismael and Ilm Manning were added to the Arizona Cardinals’ roster, according to NFL Media.The Cardinals rank third ...

The Eagles released six players on Tuesday who were on their 53-man roster by the end of last season, three of whom played in Super Bowl LVII. They currently don’t have a punter, an obvious punt returner, or more than four wide receivers after trimming the roster to a mandatory 53 players by the 4 p.m. deadline.They have a middle linebacker who has never played an NFL down as the starter, a starting ...

Boogie Basham arrived at the Giants’ facility Tuesday afternoon following a trade from the Bills, and the first thing he did was hug general manager Joe Schoen.“He’s the reason I got drafted in Buffalo in the first place. So to come in here, he wanted me here, that’s like a little bond we got, for sure,” Basham said after participating in his first practice with the Giants on Wednesday. “Joe was one ...

Jihad Ward has no time for Hard Knocks, the Jets and cheap shots.Ward, the Giants’ edge rusher, said he shoved Aaron Rodgers last Saturday because of “some sucker s--t” that wide receiver Randall Cobb and Rodgers pulled on the Jets’ first drive.He didn’t like Cobb’s blindside block on Bobby McCain that concussed the Giants’ safety. And he didn’t like Rodgers’ reaction, either. So he did something about ...

Saints new punter Lou Hedley is an oddball: Here's 5 things you may not know about himPunter from Australia Lou Hedley (39) participates in the New Orleans Saints Rookie Minicamp at the Saints Practice Facility in Metairie, Saturday, May 13, 2023.(Photo by Sophia Germer, NOLA.com, The Times-Picayune)When the New Orleans Saints made their decision Tuesday to keep Lou Hedley on their 53-man active roster ...