The Green Bay Packers have issued a press release saying they have signed T Herb Taylor and placed T Derek Sherrod on injured reserve. The transactions were announced Tuesday by Executive Vice President, General Manager and Director of Football Operations Ted Thompson.
Sherrod, the Packers' first-round pick in the 2011 NFLDraft, broke his right leg during the Sunday's 19-14 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, leaving the team extremely thin at tackle to protect quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Sherrod had replaced starting right tackle Bryan Bulaga, who left the game with a sprained left knee. Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy said Bulaga would be "challenged" to play this week.
Taylor, a 6-foot-4, 305-pound third-year player, played in 18 games with one start for the Kansas City Chiefs from 2007-08. He was drafted in the sixth round (196th overall) of the 2007 NFL Draft by Kansas City after starting 48 games at Texas Christian University and twice earning first-team All-Mountain West Conference honors.
Taylor was on Denver's active roster briefly at the end of the 2009 season and went to training camp with the Broncos in 2011 and the N.Y. New York Giants in 2010. He will wear No. 72.
Baltimore Ravens middle linebacker Ray Lewis who made his return Sunday after missing four consecutive games with a toe injury , is active and will play tonight against the Chargers.
Cornerback Lardarius Webb, who didn't practice at all this week because of a toe injury of his own, is also active tonight. Webb will suit up, giving the Ravens a full cornerback corps against San Diego Charger's potent passing attack.
Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh said yesterday that the team will have to look seriously at Cundiff's condition during the week.
Also active tonight are kicker Billy Cundiff (left calf), defensive tackle Haloti Ngata (back), defensive tackle Cory Redding (ankle), guard Ben Grubbs (toe), and cornerback Chris Carr (back), who were all listed as questionable for tonight's game.
Add it all up, and it means the Baltimore Ravens are pretty darn healthy tonight.
Texans WR to miss second straight game with hamstring strain Houston star receiver Andre Johnson will miss his second straight game with a strained left hamstring on Sunday when the ?Texans host Carolina. Johnson was injured running a route against Atlanta on Dec. 4.
He missed last week's 20-19 win at Cincinnati which clinched Houston's first AFC South title and playoff berth. It is the second injury Johnson has dealt with this season after sitting out six games following surgery to repair an injury to his other hamstring.
Houston Texans star receiver Andre Johnson is sidelined for the eighth time this season. He missed six straight games earlier with a more severe injury to his right hamstring .
Despite the recent absence of WR Andre Johnson due to a hamstring injury, Texans WR Jacoby Jones has not been able to provide Fantasy owners with a high-impact performance. In Week 15, he caught only one pass for 24 yards. He was targeted just twice in the game, marking the third time in the last four games that he has received only two targets
He is inactive for Sunday’s game againstCarolina Pantherswith a strained left hamstring.
To the outside world, it looked like DeSean Jackson was being a good team player, adjusting just fine to the Philadelphia Eagles’ apparent desire not to sign him to a new contract during the offseason or when the negotiating period for re-upping players came and and went last week.
Jackson didn't attend a special teams meeting Saturday morning and was told to stay home the next day. The Philadelphia Eagles lost to Arizona Cardinals 21-17 to fall to 3-6 in a season that began with Super Bowl aspirations.
A league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter on Sunday that Jackson overslept, causing him to miss the meeting. However, on Monday, Jackson didn't deny that he purposely skipped the meeting to make a statement because he's upset about his contract situation. He's in the final year of his rookie contract and made it clear he wants a new deal when he held out 11 days in training camp.
Philadelphia Eagles DeSean Jackson got emotional apologizing to teammates for putting himself in a position to be scratched Sunday.
Jackson was early for the get-together, having spent time discussing his issues with head coach Andy Reid.
A teammate confirmed it.
The Pro Bowl wide receiver had his reasons for blowing off a team meeting Saturday. And they are contract related, as in he’s frustrated he hasn’t been able to get the contract extension he feels he deserves.
Marcus Cannon added to Pats' roster The 6-foot-6, 348-pound Cannon, the team's fifth-round draft choice out of TCU, said last month that he's in full remission from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer. He returned to practice last month and his three-week window expired Tuesday, forcing the Patriots to decide whether to add him to the 53-man roster or shift him to season-ending injured reserve.
New England Patriotsrookie offensive tackle Marcus Cannon was added to the active roster from the reserve/non-football injury list on Tuesday, which was the deadline for players who started the season on the PUP list to be activated. He has completed his recovery from an unexpected bout with cancer, and the team has now deemed him sufficiently healthy to be elevated to the active 53-man roster.
Cannon had been practicing with the team, during the three-week window that may be opened between Week Six and Week Nine. The deadline for making a move with him was approaching.
To make room for Cannon, the New England Patriots released safety Ross Ventrone.
Last month after he returned to practice, the 23-year-old Cannon said he never considered life without football.
Cannon's treatments were in Fort Worth, Texas, and it turns out that was one of the most challenging parts to his recovery.
You know you’ve arrived as a PhiladelphiaPhillies athlete when, for a brief second, you’re hearing “boos” but are instead hearing the favorable sound of fans chanting your name or nickname.
After Twenty years Flyers backup goalie Dominic Roussel heard the crowd’s “Roooos” with every critical save he made. Fellow Flyers goalie Brian Boucher listened to the sweets sounds of “Boooosh.” Raul Ibanez hears “Rauuuuls” and Carlos Ruiz is greeted with “Chooooch.” Sunday at Citizens Bank Park, rookie reliever Mike Stutes entered the eight inning of a one-run game. When he recorded three quick outs, two by strikeout, the “Stoooots” cheers grew louder from the 45,361 people packed inside the park. “I make an effort to block out all that stuff and pay attention to what’ s ?happen out on the field,” Stutes said afterward. Whether or not Stutes heard the chants was out of the point. Sunday didn’t mark his arrival as a force to be reckoned with in the Philadelphia Phillies bullpen; it’s just his most recent, controlling performance since being summoned to the big leagues on Easter Sunday. The 24-year-old Stutes, one of the final cuts before Opening Day, hasn’t allowed a run in 18 of his 21 appearances in the big leagues. He’s held opponents to a .185 batting average and a .601 OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage). Stutes has walked 10 while striking out 21 batters in 181/3 innings. Among Phillies relievers, his 10.1 strikeouts-per-nine innings is just advance ?Ryan Madson (9.93, 15th among NL relievers) and just behind Antonio Bastardo (10.80, 10th among NL relievers). Stutes first display his stuff to the major league staff this spring, when he struck out nine in nine Grapefruit League innings while admitting just one earned run. In the four years the Phils have won consecutive MLB National LeagueEast crowns, their bullpen has been blanketed with veterans, most acquired through trades or free agency. Among those hired arms: Contreras, Brad Lidge, Scott Eyre, J.C. Romero, Tom Gordon, Chad Durbin, Danys Baez and Chan Ho Park. But the young reliever revolution has taken off in the first 2? months of the season with Bastardo and Stutes. Both have try to graduate from untested youngsters to blieved , late-inning relievers. “They’ve been getting people out, that’s what it is,” Manuel stated bluntly. “Bastardo and Stutes, both, they’ve good at job. They’ve been the ones that have been getting people out.”
